I read this recently and it is, in part, why I‘m reading James Baldwin now. I hadn‘t realized that Baldwin lived in Turkey for a time and Hansen talks about how this influenced her thinking about Baldwin and the Middle East. Hansen‘s book is a great read for our time!

Reading these two books at the same as I think about the complexity of each of their lives. My favorite Baldwin quote, I think is - “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”