The National Book Award Winner for non-fiction didn’t disappoint.  A difficult book to read, heart-breaking, enraging, and ultimately frustrating, Coates writes in the form of a letter to his 15 year old son, named for a black slave who died in an insurrection against France in Haiti and tells the story of the African-American experience in America.  Faced with the Dreamers, those who think of themselves as white, whose national myth continues to oppress people of color, Coates uses his life experiences in Baltimore, New York, and Chicago to express his fear for his child—the random and unpredictable threat to Black lives from the ghettoes, schools, and police that are the aftermath of slavery.  While acknowledging that his son will grow up in a better world, Coates uses the Michael Brown, Treyvan Martin, and other stories to point out that Black sons will never live with the security of the Dreamers.  A harsh, difficult, but very important book to read.