Hear our conversation with Angie Kim on The Short Stacks HERE and The Stacks Book Club discussion of the book HEREĪ detailed look at the many ways the racial divide has been widened by White supremacy and the fear of advancement from Black people. Overall I really enjoyed reading this book and think it is well executed, I look forward to what comes next from Angie Kim.įour Stars | Sarah Crichton Books | Ap| 368 Pages | Hardcover | Purchase on IndieBound Autism plays a huge part in this book and I didn’t find those characters to be fully explored or the different points of view to be shared as completely. She draws from her own experience as a lawyer, an immigrant, and a mother which helps make these different parts of book feel full. Kim is ambitious in including many different facets of life in this book. The scenes in the courtroom are amazing, they are vibrant and feel like you’re reading an episode of Law and Order.
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This book is compelling from the start, a total who-done it mystery.Īngie Kim was once a trial lawyer and it shows. Hear our conversation with Akiba Solomon & Kenrya Rankin on The Short Stacks HEREĪ literary courtroom drama about a horrible accident at a medical facility that kills two people. From comedian to survivalist to author to Black Lives Matter co-founders, this book proves the point that Black people are not and have never been a monolith.įour Stars | Bold Type Books | Ma| 304 Pages | Paperback | Purchase on IndieBound The commitment to showing the vastness of Black experience pays off in a book that is not about any one thing, and yet still remains connected to the central idea of fighting White supremacy. Akiba Solomon and Kenrya Rankin have done a fantastic job of finding unique and differing voices within the Black community. What I loved most about this book is how dynamic it is. A unique and inclusive work, How We Fight White Supremacy, does a fantastic job of showing the diversity and vastness of Black resistance. This book is a collection of essays, poems, playlists, interviews, comics, and art pieces all answering the question “how do you fight White supremacy?”.
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While there were moments of great emotional resonance, this book wasn’t for me, in the end, I just didn’t care about the people in the stories. He creates short sentences that pack a huge punch. Johnson is a fantastic writer with a unique style. Jesus’ Son is a well crafted collection, sparse in words but big in feeling. It is a great thing for an artist to be able to do, though I wonder if a Black author’s work would have been granted that kind of singularity. He gets to tell the stories of this specific group of users, instead of having to be responsible for all people who have ever been addicted. I couldn’t help but see Johnson’s ability to tell this story as a part of his own privilege.
The point of view, the insights, and the issues all felt like shock and awe for White people, but missed the fact that many Black and Brown people are constantly living at the margins without as much sympathy, let alone books devoted to the quirk of their day to day lives. Part of it is that this book feels overwhelmingly White and male.
The stories were fine and interesting, but overall, I wasn’t interested in what happened to them. I really didn’t care about the characters in this book. The book feels ahead of its time in this way. Before we recognized the opioid crisis as a crisis and before we sympathized with addicts, Jesus’ Son gave a human perspective to those that suffer from addiction. Jesus’ Son is both about the falling down and the getting back up of life. A collection of short stories about drifters, drug addicts and life on the margins.