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Message | Ta-Nehisi Coates
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#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER - NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The renowned author of Between the World and Me journeys to three resonant sites of conflict to explore how the stories we tell--and the ones we don't--shape our realities."Ta-Nehisi Coates always writes with a purpose. . . . These pilgrimages, for him, help ground his powerful writing about race."--Associated Press "Coates exhorts readers, including students, parents, educators, and journalists, to challenge conventional narratives that can be used to justify ethnic cleansing or camouflage racist policing. Brilliant and timely."--Booklist (starred review) Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set out to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell's classic "Politics and the English Language," but found himself grappling with deeper questions about how our stories--our reporting and imaginative narratives and mythmaking--expose and distort our realities. In the first of the book's three intertwining essays, Coates, on his first trip to Africa, finds himself in two places at once: in Dakar, a modern city in Senegal, and in a mythic kingdom in his mind. Then he takes readers along with him to Columbia, South Carolina, where he reports on his own book's banning, but also explores the larger backlash to the nation's recent reckoning with history and the deeply rooted American mythology so visible in that city--a capital of the Confederacy with statues of segregationists looming over its public squares. Finally, in the book's longest section, Coates travels to Palestine, where he sees with devastating clarity how easily we are misled by nationalist narratives, and the tragedy that lies in the clash between the stories we tell and the reality of life on the ground. Written at a dramatic moment in American and global life, this work from one of the country's most important writers is about the urgent need to untangle ourselves from the destructive myths that shape our world--and our own souls--and embrace the liberating power of even the most difficult truths.
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Sara_Planz
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The Message takes readers through three places Coates traveled to. Dakar is his first time in Africa, and his revelations about it are honest and highly personal to him as he looks at his ancestral roots. His time in South Carolina is timely as he meets a teacher who is at risk of being fired for teaching one of Coates' books. Finally, his trip to Palestine shows the continuing turmoil in that region and how injustice is on full display daily.

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Don‘t walk, run to get this book! Since Coates has been shaking the table with his discursive intervention on Palestine, that was the section I was most interested to read… but in the end I was particularly floored by the section on education & the war on “critical race theory.” If I taught HS English, I would def assign this book!

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MsLeah8417
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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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ChaoticMissAdventures
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Coates is being interviewed by local author Omar El Akkad who is an amazingly smart and interesting person himself. I am so excited for this, hoping for nothing but to learn.

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ChaoticMissAdventures
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#WeeklyForecast

It's a big one! I am going to see Ta-Nehisi Coats on Tuesday so I want to make a bit of a dent in his book before that talk; I really need to return this library book, lucky it is in verse so I am flying through The Ghosts of Rose Hill; still plugging away at 3 Musketeers! The Little Friend is my #10BeforeTheEnd for the week and if I have time I will read a bit of Nettle and Bone!

Cuilin Oh wow. I‘ve been following his interviews. Amazing 🤩 I need to read his book too. 1mo
ChaoticMissAdventures @Cuilin I have been impressed with him since Between the World and Me and it has been a joy to watch him. He is so graceful and powerful in these interviews, I could never be so calm. 1mo
kspenmoll Please let us know how everything went. Lucky you! 1mo
Hooked_on_books Oh man, that should be an incredible event! I just read the book the other day and it‘s superb. 1mo
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Coates‘s latest book is a series of essays that form a narrative through-line looking at who gets to be a full person. He impactfully explores the treatment of Palestinians in Israel (he visited before the current war), demonstrating the similarity to Jim Crow. We need provocateurs like Coates to get us talking and thinking. I‘m fully on board with him here.

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Leftcoastzen
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#Bookmail is the best mail!👏😄📚

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Pedrocamacho
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As always, I greatly value Ta-Nehisi Coates‘ thoughtfulness and perspective.

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Zbayardo
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Required reading. Equally as important, this should be discussed.

I love Coates's writing. It‘s succinct and impactful, elegant and educational. “Writing is a powerful tool of politics.”

Essential reading in the conversation of the power of narrative and how it shapes our world. It's a reminder that the stories we tell can either free us or bind us, and that the sharing of truth, however uncomfortable, is ultimately the way to true freedom.

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ChaoticMissAdventures
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Powell's book haul!

I went in last night to pick up the tagged and Olga Tokarczuk's The Empusium then kept going...
I want to read Jesus and John Wayne during Nonfiction November and they had a used copy - score! And then I found a sale edition of Wells' #7 Murderbot (now need 5&6 🤣)
I have been collecting these pretty paper mill press classics and Emma and Persuasion were half price, so had to grab them!

Ruthiella Awesome haul! 👍 2mo
Deblovestoread Near impossible to leave Powell‘s without an armful. The Austen‘s are lovely. 2mo
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