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An extraordinary coming-of-age story, adapted from the adult memoir by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Water Dancer and Between the World and Me 'Ta-Nehisi Coates is the young James Joyce of the hip-hop generation' Walter Mosley Ta-Nehisi Coates grew up in the tumultuous 1980's in Baltimore known, back then, as the murder capital of the United States. With seven siblings, four mothers, and one highly unconventional father- Paul Coates, a larger-than-life Vietnam Vet, Black Panther, Ta-Nehisi's coming of age story is gripping and lays bare the troubled, often violent life of the inner-city, and the author's experience as a young black person in it. With candor, Ta-Nehisi Coates details the challenges on the streets and within one's family, especially the eternal struggle for peace between a father and son and the important role family plays in such circumstances.

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PRAISE FOR TA-NEHISI COATES: A magnificent writer * Oprah Winfrey * Visceral, eloquent and beautifully redemptive * Toni Morrison on BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME * Extraordinary * New Yorker on BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME *

Extraordinary * New Yorker on BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME * Visceral, eloquent and beautifully redemptive * Toni Morrison on BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME * PRAISE FOR TA-NEHISI COATES: A magnificent writer * Oprah Winfrey *

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Ta-Nehisi Coates is the author of The Beautiful Struggle, We Were Eight Years in Power, The Water Dancer, and Between the World and Me, which won the National Book Award in 2015. He is the recipient of a National Magazine Award and a MacArthur Fellowship. He is currently the Sterling Brown endowed chair at Howard University in the English department.

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