The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race by Jesmyn Ward

The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race

Jesmyn Ward

241 pages first pub 2016 (editions) user-added

nonfiction essays poetry race challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

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The New York Times bestseller, these groundbreaking essays and poems about race--collected by National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward and written by the most important voices of her generation--are "thoughtful, searing, and at times, hopeful. The F...

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Moods

reflective 77%
emotional 72%
challenging 70%
informative 62%
sad 32%
hopeful 30%
inspiring 29%
dark 10%
tense 10%
funny 1%

Pace

medium 76%
fast 14%
slow 9%

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