Notes from No Man’s Land, by Eula Biss
This collection of sharply observed essays on race and racial identity in America weaves autobiographical and historical elements you've never seen before.
Biss observes hypocrisy without throwing around accusations, becoming all the more persuasive for it.
Her lyrics draw you in, to look through her eyes and to follow her agile mind, finding connections where you may not expect them.
“ You have absolutely no idea—how iconoclastic this book is, how unpredictable, how provocative, how complicit, how (potentially) transfiguring. An utterly beautiful and deeply serious performance.”
~ David Shields
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism
Winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize
Sure, Biss is now "required reading" in high school and college classrooms, but you and I can listen to it for sheer pleasure.
Narrated by Jennifer Van Dyck, who narrated Sontag's "On Photography"-- and the "Dark Swan" series by Richelle Mead.
-- Willow Pennell
