The Beautiful Struggle
- Author Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Narrator Hayden McLean
- Publisher Penguin Random House Children's UK
- Run Time 3 hours and 20 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Children’s / Teenage general interest: Biography and autobiography, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Families and family members, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Racism, Children’s / Teenage: General interest.
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What to expect
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An extraordinary coming-of-age story, adapted from the adult memoir by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Water Dancer and Between the World and Me
This was the abyss where, unguided, black boys were swallowed whole, only to re-emerge on corners and prison tiers
Ta-Nehisi Coates grew up in the tumultuous 1980's in Baltimore known, back then as the murder capital of the United States.
With seven siblings, four mothers, and one highly unconventional father: Paul Coates, a larger-than-life Vietnam Vet, Black Panther, Ta-Nehisi's coming of age story is gripping and lays bare the troubled, often violent life of the inner-city, and the author's experience as a young black person in it
With candor, Ta-Nehisi Coates details the challenges on the streets and within one's family, especially the eternal struggle for peace between a father and son and the important role family plays in such circumstances.
'Ta-Nehisi Coates is the young James Joyce of the hip-hop generation' Walter Mosley
© Ta-Nehisi Coates 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
Critics Review
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PRAISE FOR TA-NEHISI COATES:
A magnificent writer
Oprah Winfrey -
Visceral, eloquent and beautifully redemptive
Toni Morrison on BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME -
Extraordinary
New Yorker on BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME
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