Message

Title: Message Author: Ta-Nehisi Coates ISBN: 9780593230381 Publisher: One World Published: 2024 Binding: Hardcover Language: English Condition: New New condition Essays 1612274 Publisher Description: The #1 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. Ta-Nehisi 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, Coates had never set foot on the African continent until now. He roams the "steampunk" city of "old tradi