I think the press revolving this book and Coates lending his prestigious reputation to write it in the first place, is doing wonders to keeping Palestine in mainstream media in an accurate way. Which is the main reason I picked it up.

This book is like a stream of consciousness of Coates on a few adventures (Senegal, Palestine, etc.) in which he grapples with his involvement in facilitating oppression, how the US’s history is interlinked with oppression across the globe and most importantly, how language/words matters.

However, a year into a genocide this book is not adding any new information nor insight but services as a great reminder of how intricate the web of oppression is weaved.