THIS ESSAY WAS published in Granta 162, which came out about a year ago, but I only read it this week, and let me tell you...it is among the most moving, most thought-provoking, most powerful essays I have ever read. Up there with Baldwin, Orwell, Didion, I think--an extraordinary convergence of a particular event at a particular setting, personal history, and American history rendered in extraordinarily vivid and cliché-free language...beautiful, lyrical language, I want to say, but given that the subject is the trauma of enslavement I am going to say sublime language.
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