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Ordinary Notes

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A compassionate, bold and poetic memoir told in an unfolding of notes-to-self, this book navigates race, resistance, identity, creativity, love and family. Evocative, kaleidoscopic and crisply, concretely real, Ordinary Notes has a palpable music in its play of memory and juxtaposition. This unique, exquisite book should be read again and again… and again.

A finalist for the National Book Award in Nonfiction

A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction

Named a Best Book of 2023 by The New York Times, NPR, New York magazine, Kirkus, and Barnes and Noble

The critically acclaimed author of In the Wake, “Christina Sharpe is a brilliant thinker who attends unflinchingly to the brutality of our current arrangements . . . and yet always finds a way to beauty and possibility” (Saidiya Hartman).

A singular achievement, Ordinary Note...

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National Book Award Finalists 2023

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