A powerful set of memoir-style essays that explore Nehisi-Coates’ experiences growing up black in America, written to his son. This was so poignant and heartfelt. There were moments when I wasn’t fully following where he was going or the meaning was a little muddied, but I marked up all over my e-copy and will definitely be returning to this again.

“I don’t know that I have ever found any satisfactory answers of my own. But every time I ask it, the question is refined. That is the best of what the old heads meant when they spoke of being “politically conscious” - as much a series of actions as a state of being, a constant questioning, questioning as ritual, questioning as exploration rather than the search for certainty.”