A harrowing yet hopeful book about race * Observer * Uniting the voices of Claudia Rankine, Carol Anderson, Garnette Cadogan and more, this collection of essays and poems is a contemporary response to James Baldwins 1963 essay collection, The Fire Next Time. Mixing anecdote, humour, passion, fear, anger and a call to arms, its a powerful read -- Unmissable Books to Read this Spring * Stylist * Powerful ... Alive with purpose, conviction and intellect * New York Times * A stirring anthology that takes more cues from Baldwin than just its title ... Every poem and essay in Wards volume remains grounded in a harsh reality * New York Review of Books * To Baldwins call we now have a choral response one that should be read by every one of us committed to the cause of equality and freedom -- Jelani Cobb, Professor of Journalism at Columbia University This is a book to pick up and tuck under our hearts to see what we can build -- Nikki Giovanni, poet With this gorgeous chorus - Ward has done the same [ as her ancestors]: she has created a world, a space, the one she, herself, was seeking. A new type of belonging, a new place to belong, is exactly what she has given us * LA Review of Books * This is a book that seeks to place the shock of our own times into historical context and, most importantly, to move these times forward * Vogue *
