Indies Choice Book Awards
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Presented by the American Booksellers Association. These awards celebrate the best Adult Fiction, Adult Nonfiction, Children's Picture Books*, Middle Grade, Young Adult, Debut Adult and Debut Children's voted by indie booksellers. The winning titles from each category receive $2,000.
1 Books Honored in 2016
Adult Nonfiction
Between The World And Me
List Price: $26.00
Spiegel & Grau (Jul 01, 2015)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 176 pages
- 5-time BLK Bestseller, Adult Nonfiction (Hardcover)
- 10-Time AALBC.com Bestseller!
- Indies Choice Book Awards (2016)
- NAACP Image Award for Literature (2016)
- Kirkus Prize Winner/Finalist (2015)
- National Book Award Winner/Finalist (2015)
- NYT Notable Book (2015)
- 1-Time Power List Bestseller
- Pulitzer Prize Finalist/Winner (2016)
- Selected for 2 Book Club Reading Lists
ISBN: 9780812993547Publisher: Penguin Random House
Book Description:
Debuted #1 New York Times Best Seller • Hailed by Toni Morrison as required reading, a bold and personal literary exploration of Americas racial history by the single best writer on the subject of race in the United States (The New York Observer)
This is your country, this is your world, this is your body, and you must find some way to live within the all of it.
In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nations history and current crisis. Americans have built an empire on the idea of race, a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily on the bodies of black women and menbodies exploited through slavery and segregation, and, today, threatened, locked up, and murdered out of all proportion. What is it like to inhabit a black body and find a way to live within it? And how can we all honestly reckon with this fraught history and free ourselves from its burden?
Between the World and Me is Ta-Nehisi Coatess attempt to answer these questions in a letter to his adolescent son. Coates shares with his sonand readersthe story of his awakening to the truth about his place in the world through a series of revelatory experiences, from Howard University to Civil War battlefields, from the South Side of Chicago to Paris, from his childhood home to the living rooms of mothers whose childrens lives were taken as American plunder. Beautifully woven from personal narrative, reimagined history, and fresh, emotionally charged reportage, Between the World and Me clearly illuminates the past, bracingly confronts our present, and offers a transcendent vision for a way forward.
Debuted #1 New York Times Best Seller • Hailed by Toni Morrison as required reading, a bold and personal literary exploration of Americas racial history by the single best writer on the subject of race in the United States (The New York Observer)
This is your country, this is your world, this is your body, and you must find some way to live within the all of it.
In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nations history and current crisis. Americans have built an empire on the idea of race, a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily on the bodies of black women and menbodies exploited through slavery and segregation, and, today, threatened, locked up, and murdered out of all proportion. What is it like to inhabit a black body and find a way to live within it? And how can we all honestly reckon with this fraught history and free ourselves from its burden?
Between the World and Me is Ta-Nehisi Coatess attempt to answer these questions in a letter to his adolescent son. Coates shares with his sonand readersthe story of his awakening to the truth about his place in the world through a series of revelatory experiences, from Howard University to Civil War battlefields, from the South Side of Chicago to Paris, from his childhood home to the living rooms of mothers whose childrens lives were taken as American plunder. Beautifully woven from personal narrative, reimagined history, and fresh, emotionally charged reportage, Between the World and Me clearly illuminates the past, bracingly confronts our present, and offers a transcendent vision for a way forward.
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