4stars 

Narrated by the author 

AMAZING AUDIOBOOK 

This book was so well done and you can feel the suffocation that the toll of incarceration and everything that comes after can take on someone, especially Black men. 

Favorite Quotes:
 

“The things that abandon you get remembered different. As precise as the English language can be, with words like penultimate and perseverate, there is not a combination of sounds that describe only that leaving.” 

 

“This is how misery sounds: my boys playing in the backseat juxtaposed against a twelve-year-old’s murder playing in my head.” 

 

“This is the brick & mortar of the America that murdered Tamir & may stalk the laughter in my backseat. I am a father driving his Black sons to school & the death of a Black boy rides shotgun & this could be a funeral procession. The death a silent thing in the air, unmentioned— because mentioning death invites taboo: if you touch my sons the blood washed away from the concrete must, at some point, belong to you, & not just to you, to the artifice of justice that is draped like a blue g-d around your shoulders, the badge that justifies the echo of the fired pistol; taboo:” 

 

 

“not when the accumulation of our yesterdays hang like the last dusk before us— each memory another haunting thing.”