{"product_id":"books-to-free-the-captives-by-tracy-k-smith","title":"To Free the Captives","description":"\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eTIME\u003c\/i\u003e AND \u003ci\u003eWASHINGTON POST\u003c\/i\u003e BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR . \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e Editors' Choice . A stunning personal manifesto on memory, family, and history that explores how we in America might-together-come to a new view of our shared past\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"A vulnerable, honest look at a life lived in a country still struggling with its evils...Hopeful...Beautiful and haunting.\" -Eddie S. Glaude Jr., author of \u003ci\u003eBegin Again\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In 2020, heartsick from constant assaults on Black life, Tracy K. Smith found herself soul-searching and digging into the historical archive for help navigating the \"din of human division and strife.\" With lyricism and urgency, Smith draws on several avenues of thinking-personal, documentary, and spiritual-to understand who we are as a nation and what we might hope to mean to one another.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eTo Free the Captives\u003c\/i\u003e touches down in Sunflower, Alabama, the red-dirt town where Smith's father's family comes from, and where her grandfather returned after World War I with a hero's record but difficult prospects as a Black man. Smith considers his life and the life of her father through the lens of history. Hoping to connect with their strength and continuance, she assembles a new terminology of American life.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Bearing courageous witness to the terms of Freedom afforded her as a Black woman, a mother, and an educator in the twenty-first century, Smith etches a portrait of where we find ourselves four hundred years into the American experiment. Weaving in an account of her growing spiritual practice, she argues that the soul is not merely a private site of respite or transcendence, but a tool for fulfilling our duties to each other, and a sounding board for our most pressing collective questions- Where are we going as a nation? Where have we been?","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53669226971409,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780593467985.jpg?v=1781506992","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-to-free-the-captives-by-tracy-k-smith","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}