'Unbearably moving,' Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The story of a young man's coming of age, a tender tribute to a
life lost, and a devastating analysis of a broken system.
Danielle Allen is the Director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for
Ethics at Harvard University, professor in Harvard's Department of
Government and Graduate School of Education, Chair of the Mellon
Foundation Board, past Chair of the Pulitzer Prize Board, and
member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Allen is a political theorist who has published broadly in
democratic theory, political sociology, and the history of
political thought and is widely known for her work on justice and
citizenship in both ancient Athens and modern America.
She is a frequent public lecturer and regular guest on public radio
to discuss issues of citizenship, as well as an occasional
contributor on similar subjects to the Washington Post, Boston
Review, Democracy, Cabinet, and The Nation.
What starts as a personal memoir, an effort to resurrect from
oblivion a beloved cousin who died young, modulates in Allen's
hands into a cool, reasoned, but ultimately devastating indictment
of the War on Drugs and the sentencing regime it has given birth
to. In plain terms, stripped of the jargon of the social sciences,
she shows us what awaits you if you are young, black, and unlucky
in today's United States.
*J. M. COETZEE*
The genius of Cuz lies in its willingness to accept what isn’t
known about Michael … Her memoir defies genre and expectation … Cuz
is a literary miracle of form and content ... Allen’s ambitious
breathtaking book challenges the moral composition of the world it
inhabits by telling all who listen: I loved my cousin and he loved
me, and I know he’d be alive if you loved him, too
*Washington Post Sunday*
[Cuz] will stay with you for a long time ... Moving, tender, angry,
insightful, this is a damning incitement of how the system fails to
treat people as humans, at how gang culture affects families, and a
look at how love can blind people and have terrible
consequences.
*Stylist Magazine*
Cuz will break your heart. Of the recent books that have done so
much against such great odds to create a meaningful
anti-incarceration movement in America, it may be the most
compelling ... Danielle Allen brilliantly and searingly lays all of
this out ...remarkable.
*The National Book Review*
I can only stand in awe of Cuz’s account of her, Micheal’s and
their family’s ordeals.
*Huffington Post*
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