Lysistrata

This is not a fast-paced book, but it's a very real and very poignant non-fiction account of a black man's life after the abolition of slavery but before the Civil Rights Act.

Amazing (if I can say that about a topic like this) autobiographical book about the brutality of the South against the sheer desperate will it took to survive as a black boy. Maybe a little slow in the beginning but it's a great witness of what it was like being an African American in the American Deep South in the early 1900's. Slavery had been abolished of course, but the South's white supremacists were having none of that, Jim Crow laws made sure that the blacks were treated as second class citizens.

Read this as part of a lit course for open enrollment for Yale Open Courses.

Loved it. Writing was beautiful and the story was important. The ending felt a bit abrupt? I don't think I read the version that as cut down but I was hoping for a more complete ending. I will definitely read his other books.

pangs + performance