Notes from No Man's Land

As beautiful as you can possibly imagine an essay collection about race, crime and our collective responsibility to one another as Americans can be. When you think Baldwin or Didion or Fadiman, now also think Biss. I will be giving copies of this magical book to everyone.

This is a younger writer than On Immunity, on growing up and finding ones place, but the same seamless sway from personal experience to historical context and biting fearlessly into race, gentrification, white fear.