Citizen: An American Lyric Ages 3 and up Born in Korea but raised

Born in Korea but raised in the American Midwest

and familial love resist and defy erasure

none of their lives will ever be the same

Can they find the fortune and fulfill the letter's promise before the answers slip into the past yet again

Citizen: An American Lyric Ages 3 and up Born in Korea but raisedA provocative meditation on race, Claudia Rankine's long awaited follow up to her groundbreaking book Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric Claudia Rankine's bold book recounts mounting racial aggression in ongoing encounters in twenty first century daily life and in the media. Some of these encounters are slights, seeming slips of the tongue, and some are intentional offensives in the classroom, at the supermarket, at home, on the tennis court