The nature of the American experiment is implicitly questioned but not burned to the ground… This is a classic war story told simply and well, its meanings not forced but allowed to bubble up.”- Dwight Garner, New York Times No leaden diagnoses of the human predicament belch on the smoky skyline. There are no braided points of view here, no too-pretty words, no splintered syntax. “Faladé’s book is so accessible and rousing, though, that you hope it becomes available as a mass-market paperback, in packaging that more clearly announces: This book is a straight-up page-turner. This is what I continue to try to explore in my writing, including in my forthcoming memoir/essay from The New Yorker. It was true during the era of Black Cloud Rising, and is all the more so now, even as we, as a society, continue to want to resist it. For me, the American story is about “mixedness” - about the ways in which people of various backgrounds and beliefs have come together, oftentimes despite themselves, to make up our racial stew.
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