EAN: 9780241724187

COATES TA-NEHISI THE MESSAGE

The number one New York Times bestselling author of Between the World and Me travels the world
to explore how the stories we tell - and the ones we don't - shape our realities   Coates
originally set off to write a book about writing  in the tradition of Orwell's classic Politics
and the English Language   but found himself grappling with deeper questions about how our
stories - our reporting and imaginative narratives and mythmaking - expose and distort our
realities.  The first of the book's three intertwining essays is set in Dakar  Senegal. Despite
being raised as a strict Afrocentrist - and named for Nubian pharaoh - Coates had never set
foot on the African continent until finally he travelled to the coast where the enslaved were
transported to a new world. Everywhere he goes he feels as if he's in two places at once: a
modern city in Senegal and a mythic kingdom in his mind  the pan-African homeland he was raised
to believe was the origin and destiny for all black people.  In Palestine  he discovers the
devastating gap between the stories we tell ourselves and the vivid reality on the ground. He
travels the singular landscape and meets with activists and dissidents  Israelis and
Palestinians - the old  who remember their dispossession  and the young who dream of
revolution.  The final essay takes place in the USA - in Columbia  South Carolina  where Coates
visits a school district in the process of banning one of his books. He enters the world of the
teacher whose job is threatened and her community of mostly white supporters who were
transformed and even radicalized by the "racial reckoning" of 2020.  Written at a dramatic
moment in global life  this work eloquently expresses the need to interrogate our myths and
liberate our truths.

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