Why did I wait so long to read this?! The world might never know. James by Percival Everett, a retelling of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, follows an enslaved man called Jim. When he learns that he is to be sold and thus separated from his wife and daughter, he decides to flee instead, in the …
Tag: American history
Book Review | Between the World and Me
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates is an essay/letter to the author’s son. In it, Coates speaks about growing up in Baltimore, about going to Howard University, about love and fear and police brutality, all in an effort to show his son what life is like as a black man in America. This …
Book Review | The Underground Railroad
I’ve read a novel by Colson Whitehead before, but that was several years ago in college. Now, with The Nickel Boys out, I decided to revisit him by reading his most famous work: The Underground Railroad, which tells the story of one woman’s journey from enslavement in the South to various places in America, learning …
Book Review | Alexander Hamilton
I first read Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow in November 2017. This review was originally posted on my Goodreads account at that time. Minor edits have been made before posting here. As a former history minor (and yes, also as a fan of the musical Hamilton), this book was a great read for me. Chernow …
Righter of Words 