From the author of the critically acclaimed novel Man Gone Down?a New York Times Top Ten Book of the Year and winner of the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award?comes a deeply personal memoir of race, racism, and inherited trauma through three generations of Black American men

Michael Thomas is the author of the national bestseller Man Gone Down, winner of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and a New York Times Top Ten Novel of the Year. His writing has appeared in A Public Space, The New York Times, and in Ben George's anthology The Book of Dads. He is a professor of English at Hunter College. He lives in Brooklyn.