Why did I love this book?
The stories and facts immerse you in a narrative about real people, race, class, and caste. Going between being a sponge soaking up the information and squirming in your chair, you are moved to find opportunities for personal change. Masterfully written and documented, I will not look at American life and the stratification of people in the same way.
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THE TIME NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR | #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"Powerful and timely ... I cannot recommend it strongly enough" - Barack Obama
From one of America's most celebrated and insightful writers, the moving, eye-opening bestseller about what lies hidden under the surface of ordinary lives
In this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched narrative and stories about real people, how America today and throughout its history has been shaped by a hidden caste system, a rigid hierarchy of human…