This book is several different books overlapped together, which the author tells us in the opening pages. It’s partly a memoir, telling the story of Farah Jasmine Griffin growing up in the late 1960s and early 1970s, with parents heavily involved in the Civil Rights movement, especially the elements of the movement that intersect with radical writers and thinkers (even though as we are told they were a little too old to be involved in the Black Panthers, just as a way of placing them) […]