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The Beautiful Struggle

Ta-Nehisi Coates author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Penguin Random House Children's UK

Published:4th Feb '21

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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

This was the abyss where, unguided, black boys were swallowed whole, only to re-emerge on corners and prison tiers

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.

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

ISBN: 9780241517208

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 11mm

Weight: 127g

176 pages