Witness: Stories Brinkley Jamel
Witness: Stories Brinkley Jamel Exploring such contemporary issues as gentrification, police violence, and the traps of misogyny and masculinity among others, Witness is an elegant, insistent…
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Witness: Stories Brinkley Jamel
Exploring such contemporary issues as gentrification, police violence, and the traps of misogyny and masculinity among others, Witness is an elegant, insistent narrative bearing out actions taken and not taken from National Book Award finalist and O. To bear witness? Henry Prize-winning author Jamel Brinkley.What does it mean to take action?
Though they strive to connect, to remember, to stand up for and to really see each other, they often fall short, and the structures they build around these ambitions and failures shape not only their own futures, but the legacies and prospects of their What does it cost?In these ten stories, each set in the changing landscapes of contemporary New York City, a range of characters--from children to grandmothers to ghosts--live through the responsibility of perceiving and the moral challenge of speaking up or taking action.