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Books by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Ta-Nehisi Coates is an American journalist and bestselling author. He made his name as a national correspondent for The Atlantic, but is today better known for his three non-fiction books: “The Beautiful Struggle,” “Between the World and Me,” and the collection of essays, “We Were Eight Years of Power.” In 2019, he published his first novel, “The Water Dancer,” to wide acclaim.

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Between the World and Me

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Structured as a three-part letter to the author’s teenage son, “Between the World and Me” by Ta-Nehisi Coates is a deeply touching, hauntingly poetic, and piercingly accurate analysis of the racist violence woven into American culture. Among other things, the book-length letter recounts Coates’ experiences as a young black man, the murder of his friend Prince Jones, and the feelings of Prince’s mother Mable.

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