From the #1 New York times best-selling author of So You Want to Talk About Race and Mediocre comes an eye-opening and galvanizing look at the current state of anti-racist activism across America.

"Seventy-two men arrive in the middle of the Sicilian countryside. They are "immigrants," "refugees" or "migrants." But in Altino, they're called the ragazzi, the "guys" that the Santa Marta Association have taken responsibility for. In this small Sicilian town, their arrival changes life for everybody. While they wait to know their fate, the ragazzi encounter all kinds of people: a strange vicar who rewrites their pasts, a woman committed to ensuring...

"In September of 2019, Luis Alberto Quiñonez-known as Sito- was shot to death as he sat in his car in the Mission District of San Francisco. He was nineteen. His killer, Julius Williams, was seventeen. It was the second time the teens had encountered one another. The first, five years before, also ended in tragedy, when Julius watched as his brother was stabbed to death by an acquaintance of Sito's. The two murders merited a few local news stories,...

"An Eton graduate is conscripted as a servant of the British Empire to oversea local policemen in Burma, forcing him to navigate social , racial and class politics"--