The young James Joyce of the hip-hop generation.
- Walter Mosley,
A kind of hip-hop <i>Portrait of the Artist</i>.
Guardian
A moving father-and-son story . an intense portrait of those whom the black revolution left behind, but who never broke faith with its tenets.
New York Review of Books
A beautifully written, loving portrait of a strong father bringing his sons to manhood.
Booklist
Haunting and healing . a splendid memoir.
Essence
The single best writer on the subject of race in the United States.
New York Observer
A remarkable, blunt portrait of an adolescence filled with danger, chaos, flaws, and tragedy . a love story, dispatched from the frontlines of a family.
Time Out New York
The intellectual heir to James Baldwin.
Financial Times
Told in a dreamy, lyric register redolent of a voiceover in a movie flashback, <i>The Beautiful Struggle</i> is both a touching portrait of filial affection and a paean to the redemptive power of culture.
Prospect
One of the most high-profile commentators on race in the United States ...Reading this book is an intoxicating experience
- Bernardine Evaristo, New Statesman
This book forces us to ask how far American society has really come, and how much further it has to go.
Financial Times