Children of the Land: A Memoir Fiction_Gift_Guide and the rivers run”

and the rivers run”

“In this history of lynching in the post-Reconstruction South—the most comprehensive of its kind—the author has written what amounts to a Black Book of American race relations

but their consequences and implications are no less profound-or terrifying

is back in this instant New York Times bestseller

are ready for a new beginning

Children of the Land: A Memoir Fiction_Gift_Guide and the rivers run”An NPR Best Book of the Year A 2020 International Latino Book Award Finalist An Entertainment Weekly, The Millions, and LitHub Most Anticipated Book of the Year This unforgettable memoir from a prize winning poet about growing up undocumented in the United States recounts the sorrows and joys of a family torn apart by draconian policies and chronicles one young mans attempt to build a future in a nation that denies his existence. You were not a ghost