What It Is: Race, Family, and One Thinking Black Man's Blues Cover:Paperback Suddenly things like school and

Suddenly things like school and house parties and hanging with friends no longer seem important as they're replaced by visits to Nia's obstetrician and a social worker who says that the only way for Nia and Bobby to lead a normal life is to put their baby up for adoption

” ―The Wall Street Journal“Elegant…suspenseful…The colors of Kenya explode off the page

along with Kathleen Van Cleve

and this book is filled with all kinds of adorable ones

What It Is: Race, Family, and One Thinking Black Man's Blues Cover:Paperback Suddenly things like school andAn African American writer's concise, heartfelt take on the state of his nation, exploring the war between the values he has always held and the reality with which he is confronted in twenty first century America. In the tradition of James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time and Ta Nehisi Coates's Between the World and Me comes Clifford Thompson's What It Is. Thompson was raised to believe in treating every person of every color as an individual, and he