The Fire This Time // A New Generation Speaks about Race

In this bestselling, widely lauded collection, Jesmyn Ward gathers our most original thinkers and writers to speak on contemporary racism and race, including Carol Anderson, Jericho Brown, Edwidge Danticat, Kevin Young, Claudia Rankine, and Honoree Jeffers. An absolutely indispensable anthology (Booklist, starred review),The Fire This Timeshines a light on the darkest corners of our history, wrestles with our current predicament, and imagines a better future.

Envisioned as a response toThe Fire Next Time, James Baldwins groundbreaking 1963 essay collection, these contemporary writers reflect on the past, present, and future of race in America. Weve made significant progress in the fifty-odd years since Baldwins essays were published, but America is a long and painful distance away from a post-racial societya truth we must confront if we are to continue to work towards change. Baldwins fire next time is now upon us, and it needs to be talked about;The Fire This Timeseeks to place the shock of our own times into historical context and, most importantly, to move these times forward (Vogue).

Jesmyn Ward received her MFA from the University of Michigan and has received the MacArthur Genius Grant, a Stegner Fellowship, a John and Renee Grisham Writers Residency, the Strauss Living Prize, and the 2022 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction. She is the winner of two National Book Awards for Fiction forSing, Unburied, Sing(2017) andSalvage the Bones(2011). She is also the author of the novelWhere the Line Bleedsand the memoirMen We Reaped,which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and won the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize and the Media for a Just Society Award. She is currently an associate professor of creative writing at Tulane University and lives in Mississippi.

• Paperback:240 pages
• ISBN-10:1501126350
• ISBN-13:9781501126352
• Item Weight:7.2 ounces
• Product Dimensions:5.5 x 0.8 x 8.38 inches
• Publisher:Scribner; Reprint Edition (June 20, 2017)
• Language:English