A powerful and heartbreaking work. Coates writes this to his teenage son, attempting to describe what it is to be a black man in America. This is about the best articulation that i have read. 
 I am apart from this struggle, both in colour and nationality. But this work made me feel the energy required to live as a young black man in the US and it is draining. Shootings, incarceration, gang wars... I cannot imagine the stress on the parent and the child. 
 Everyone, regardless of nationality and race, should read this.