powerful, searing, visceral, unrelenting, and unbelievably eloquent, between the world and me succeeds in the almost-impossible task of encapsulating the personal experiences of being black in america to the country's insidious system of upholding whiteness w/ the destruction of its seeming counterpart. there's at least a sentence on almost every page that stuns or makes one pause out of its sheer revelatory power or truth. reading this book is very much like being slapped out of a big pharma drug-induced lifelong stupor.