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96/100Author:
Christina Sharpe
Publisher:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Date:
April 25, 2023
In a series of 248 notes that gather meaning as we read them, Christina Sharpe weaves artifacts from the pastâpublic ones alongside others that are poignantly personalâwith present realities and possible futures, intricately constructing an immersive portrait of everyday Black existence.
What The Reviewers Say
Her new book offers a multiplicity of notes as a rejoinder, assembling memories and observations, artifacts and artworks, tracing the persistence of racism and brutality while also exploring the varieties of Black life.
Radical, profound.
Sharpe engages with multimedia to explore these topics and muses on photography, meaningful books, quotations, and observations from trips to museums and memorials. She integrates heartfelt personal anecdotes; stories about her family members, particularly her mother and grandmother; and lessons that she has learned from her relatives about seeing beauty in its many dimensions..
Operatic.
