This book was a punch to the gut in the best way possible; Between the World and Me was not only an excellent insight into the human condition, but helped me to understand my own feelings and frustrations as an American.

While written by a truly brilliant mind, as this was intended as a letter to his young son, Ta-Nehisi Coates delivers harsh truths with the loving and tender desperation only a parent can impart with their child when teaching them of the difficult realities of the world within which they must grow and live. He shares hard-learned warnings with a desire to understand and explain the greater socio-economic mechanisms that facilitate modern-day injustices.

I could not possibly say it better than Toni Morrison, "This is required reading."