The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race

by Mitchell S. Jackson, Kiese Laymon, Daniel José Older, et al.

Book Overview

The New York Times bestseller, these groundbreaking essays and poems about race--collected by National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward and written by the most important voices of her generation--are "thoughtful, searing, and at times, hopeful. The Fire This Time is vivid proof that words are important, because of their power to both cleanse and to clarify" (USA TODAY).

In light of recent tragedies and widespread protests...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501126342
• ISBN13: 9781501126345
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Scribner Book Company
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.5"