americattt's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
“I was never comfortable with anger. I would feel the claws of rage digging into me, but my nature never allowed them to hang on for long. I thought that the rage just went away. It took years to find out I was wrong. But back then, I did not know where to go.”
angelreadsthings's review against another edition
3.0
3.5 Stars. Despite including some of my favorite elements of storytelling, such as poetic phrasing and non-linear histories, this memoir was difficult for me to truly connect with. Coates offers an illuminating portrait of what it was like to grow up as a Black boy in 80s Baltimore and in a family so conscious of the struggle but not immune to its traps, but his writing sometimes meanders, making it hard to follow the progression of the narrative. That being said, I still think some important insights can be gleaned from this memoir, and I feel more prepared to read Between the World and Me having read this earlier book.
vera_michele's review against another edition
4.0
4/5 Stars
I got a little confused in the beginning from so many people being introduced at once, but other than that I really liked it.
I got a little confused in the beginning from so many people being introduced at once, but other than that I really liked it.