Walking on Water: Black American Lives at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century

"A meaningful panoramic view of what it means to be human...Cause for celebration." —Times-Picayune

From the author of the National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Let the Dead Bury Their Dead comes a moving, cliché-shattering group portrait of African Americans at the turn of the twenty-first century.

In a hypnotic blend of oral history and travel writing, Randall Kenan sets out to answer a question that has has long fascinated him: What does it mean to be black in America today? To find ...