Between the World and Me
Read March 27, 2016
Publication Details
Type:
Book
Published:
2015
Reading Details
Pages:
163
Location:
Tarrytown, New York (US)
Highlights
First Paragraph:
Son,
Last Sunday the host of a popular news show asked me what it meant to lose my body. The host was broadcasting from Washington, D.C., and I was seated in a remote studio on the far west side of Manhattan. A satellite closed the miles between us, but no machinery could close the gap between her world and the world for which I had been summoned to speak. When the host asked me about my body, her face faded from the screen, and was replaced by a scroll of words, written by me earlier that week.