The Beautiful Struggle (adapted for Young Adults)The Beautiful Struggle (adapted for Young Adults)

"A memoir from Ta-Nehisi Coates, in which he details the challenges on the streets and within one's family, especially the eternal struggle for peace between a father and son and the important role family plays in such circumstances"--
Adapted for teen readers, a father-son memoir documents the National Book Award-winning author’s youth in the “murder capital” of 1980s Baltimore and his relationship with his father, Vietnam veteran Paul Coates, throughout the latter’s activism as a Black Panther and Afrocentric scholar. Simultaneous eBook.
Adapted from the adult memoir by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Water Dancer and Between the World and Me, this father-son story explores how boys become men, and quite specifically, how Ta-Nehisi Coates became Ta-Nehisi Coates.

Coates grew up in the tumultuous 1980's in Baltimore, known as the murder capital back then. With seven siblings, four mothers, and one highly unconventional father: Paul Coates, a larger-than-life Vietnam Vet, Black Panther, Afrocentric scholar, Ta-Nehisi's coming of age story is gripping and lays bare the struggles of inner-city kids.

With candor, Ta-Nehisi Coates details the challenges on the streets and within one's family, especially the eternal struggle for peace between a father and son and the important role family plays in such circumstances.

Praise for the adult edition of THE BEAUTIFUL STRUGGLE:

"Ta-Nehisi Coates is the young James Joyce of the hip-hop generation." --Walter Mosley
"Haunting and healing . . . a splendid memoir" --Essence
"A brilliant coming-of-age story." --People