Tears We Cannot Stop

Anguish and hurt throb in every word of Michael Eric Dyson's <i>Tears We Cannot Stop</i>...It is eloquent, righteous, and inspired...Often lyrical, <i>Tears</i> is not...without indignation...brilliance and rectitude. --<i>The Philadelphia Inquirer</i></p> Dyson...creates a sermon unlike any we've heard or read, and it's right on time...an unapologetically bold plea for America to own up to its inexplicable identity anxiety. --<i>Essence</i></p> [Dyson's] narrative voice carries a deeper and more intimate authority, as it grows from his own experience as a black man in America -- from being beaten by his father to being profiled by the police to dealing with his brother's long-term incarceration...Dyson's raw honesty and self-revelation enables him to confront his white audience and reach out to them. --<i>The Chicago Tribune</i></p> Be ready to pause nearly every other sentence, absorb what is said, and prepare for action. <i>Tears We Cannot Stop</i> is meant to change your thinking. --<i>The Miami Times</i></p> [<i>Tears We Cannot Stop] </i>talks directly to you, about issues deep, disturbing, and urgently in need of being faced. --Philly.com</p> One of the most frank and searing discussions on race ... a deeply serious, urgent book, which should take its place in the tradition of Baldwin's <i>The Fire Next Time</i> and King's <i>Why We Can't Wait</i>. --<i>The New York Times Book Review </i>(Editor's Choice)</p> Impassioned. --<i>Library Journal</i></p> Readers will find searing moments in <i>Tears We Cannot Stop</i>, when Dyson's words proves unforgettable...But more than education, Dyson wants a reckoning. --<i>The Washington Post</i></p> Dyson lays bare our conscience, then offers redemption through our potential change. --<i>Booklist</i></p> If you read Michael Eric Dyson's <i>New York Times</i> op-ed piece Death in Black and White, then you know what a powerful work of cultural analysis his book, <i>Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America </i>is going to be. At a time when everyone needs to speak more openly, honestly, and critically about the racial divisions that have been allowed to grow in the United States, Dyson's book -- available in January -- could not be a more welcome read. --<i>Bustle</i></p> A hard-hitting sermon on the racial divide... The readership Dyson addresses may not fully be convinced, but it can hardly remain unmoved. --<i>Kirkus Reviews</i> (Starred)</p> Elegantly written, <i>Tears We Cannot Stop</i> is powerful in several areas: moving personal recollections; profound cultural analysis; and guidance for moral redemption. A work to relish. --Toni Morrison</p> Here's a sermon that's as fierce as it is lucid. It shook me up, but in a good way. This is how it works if you're black in America, this is what happens, and this is how it feels. If you're black, you'll feel a spark of recognition in every paragraph. If you're white, Dyson tells you what you need to know--what this white man needed to know, at least. This is a major achievement. I read it and said amen. --Stephen King</p> Michael Eric Dyson is alive to the fierce urgency of now and yet he's full of felicitous contradictions: an intellectual who won't talk down to anyone; a man of God who eschews piousness; a truth-teller who is not afraid of doubt or nuance; a fighter whose arguments, though always to the point, are never ad hominem. We can and should be thankful we have a writer like Michael Eric Dyson is our midst. --Dave Eggers, from the preface of <i>Can You Hear Me Now?</i></p>