Taxonomies of Survival in “Reconstruction” – Chicago Review of Books

Taxonomies of Survival in “Reconstruction” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] In the final story of Alaya Dawn Johnson’s new collection, a soldier in the 54th Massachusetts Regiment expounds a “taxonomy of anger” that grapples with the layers and species of anger living in his fellow Black soldiers, newly and incompletely freed. It’s one of many thorny recurring problems in Reconstruction, a stylistically diverse collection … Read more