Reading this just made me want to read all of the books whose excerpts were included. It’s beautiful and powerful writing but, having read Beloved in full, I think it doesn’t contain the power of a full story.

Read this for a work book club where we’re reading several books on race (coincidental timing with the prominence of the BLM movement right now), so will be interested in hearing the perspectives from others on how the contents of this book made them feel about race. Especially the essay Making America White Again, which was written so recently.