A review by caedocyon
Black Boy Out of Time: A Memoir by Hari Ziyad

2.0

It's no fun to be aware of how much work an author is putting into their prose and be unimpressed by the result. The repetition was supposed to be poetic; instead it was boring. The whole book, but especially the first 70 pages, reminded me of an AI trained on a certain genre of instagram posts (radical woo?). The result is dense and hard to parse without advancing many new ideas. I occasionally caught a glimpse of an interesting story or idea buried under all that. But: I'm not the target audience, so YMMV.