The Beautiful Struggle

<p><b><i>*An extraordinary coming-of-age story adapted from the adult memoir by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Water Dancer and Between the World and Me*</i></b><br><br><b><i>'Ta-Nehisi Coates is the young James Joyce of the hip-hop generation' </i>Walter Mosley</b><br><br><i>This was the abyss where unguided black boys were swallowed whole only to re-emerge on corners and prison tiers</i><br><br>Ta-Nehisi Coates grew up in the tumultuous 1980's in Baltimore known back then as the murder capital of the United States.<br><br>With seven siblings four mothers and one highly unconventional father: Paul Coates a larger-than-life Vietnam Vet Black Panther Ta-Nehisi's coming of age story is gripping and lays bare the troubled often violent life of the inner-city and the author's experience as a young black person in it<br><br>With candor Ta-Nehisi Coates details the challenges on the streets and within one's family especially the eternal struggle for peace between a father and son and the important role family plays in such circumstances.</p>