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The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle
5.0

I did something big, bigger than anyone will understand for a long time. I was just so angry.

Why aren't more people raving about Victor LaValle? This was excellent. 149 pages and not a word wasted. An elegantly crafted horror novella set in Jazz Age New York about Charles Thomas Tester, and the circumstances that befall him, in part due to his being a black man in the early 20th century. I'm not even sure how to describe what this is...just go read it.