Wesley Aptekar-Cassels reviewed Citizen by Claudia Rankine
Citizen: An American Lyric
3 stars
Content warning CW: discussion of racism
Coming into this from Don't Let Me Be Lonely, I was a little disappointed, but it's still quiet good.
It is a little strange reading this a decade after it came out, the same conversations it's embedded in continuing to loop today, nothing really seeming to improve. It's easy to imagine extending this book with the handful of new instances of racism that happened to become news cycles, and ending it the same way. Depressing, but I think partially that cyclic nature is what the book is about.