他，是一位成功的父亲。麦克阿瑟天才奖得主，《时代周刊》全球最具影响力100人。在旁人的眼中，这位父亲完全可以给孩子良好的教育、丰富的人脉。但他依然对儿子的前途悲观，担心他将遭遇的不公和不幸，于是写下三封长信：我希望你拥有自己的生活，一种远离恐惧的生活，甚至远离我。 他们，来自一个黑人家庭，家书里梳理了少数族裔在美国走过的艰难历程，那个国度不光彩的平等历史，但恐惧并不仅仅来自肩上的种族包袱，因为个人在社会中的弱小，一点也不比种族在历史中的脆弱让人好受。 这是一本心意拳拳的家书，更是智慧满满的祈祷文。写下了父亲对儿子的期待，他的美国梦，绝不是挣脱族群的羁绊，出人头地，获得世俗意义上的成功。重要的是，要在这个美丽而残酷的世界，如何学会做个审慎并清醒的公民。 三封家书，在世界与我之间。写尽父子情，读懂美国梦。

“This is your country, this is your world, this is your body, and you must find some way to live within the all of it.” In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation’s history and current crisis. Americans have built an empire on the idea of “race,” a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily on the bodies of black women and men—bodies exploited through slavery and segregation, and, today, threatened, locked up, and murdered out of all proportion. What is it like to inhabit a black body and find a way to live within it? And how can we all honestly reckon with this fraught history and free ourselves from its burden? Between the World and Me is Ta-Nehisi Coates’s attempt to answer these questions in a letter to his adolescent son. Coates shares with his son—and readers—the story of his awakening to the truth about his place in the world through a series of revelatory experiences, from Howard University to Civil War battlefields, from the South Side of Chicago to Paris, from his childhood home to the living rooms of mothers whose children’s lives were taken as American plunder. Beautifully woven from personal narrative, reimagined history, and fresh, emotionally charged reportage, Between the World and Me clearly illuminates the past, bracingly confronts our present, and offers a transcendent vision for a way forward.