Losing My Cool - Love, Literature, And A Black Man's Escape From The Crowd Australian Book Industry Award (ABIA) Nominee for Illustrated Book (2008) offering clear-eyed portrayals of figures

offering clear-eyed portrayals of figures such as Mao and Brezhnev

sometimes indecipherable city

This is a quietly good book rather than a spectacular debut

as Francis describes it

Losing My Cool - Love, Literature, And A Black Man's Escape From The Crowd Australian Book Industry Award (ABIA) Nominee for Illustrated Book (2008) offering clear-eyed portrayals of figures"A provocative, intellectual memoir" ( USA Today ) from a remarkable new literary voice. Growing up, Thomas Chatterton Williams knew he loved three things in his parents, literature, and the intoxicating hip hop culture that surrounded him. For years, he managed to juggle two disparate lifestyles, "keeping it real" in his friends' eyes and studying for the SATs under his father's strict tutelage until it all threatened to spin out of control. Written