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Buck by mk asante5/10/2023 ![]() His university professor father is known outside the home as “the father of Afrocentrism,” but he enrolls Asante in a private and predominantly white prep school. He’s a smart kid, growing up in a town he and his friends call “Killadelphia, Pistolvania,” for its drug- and gang-caused violence. ![]() And his memoir contains multitudes: the rich and varied people of 1980s black Philadelphia. “Do I contradict myself?” he reads in Walt Whitman’s epic poem “Leaves of Grass.” “Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.” He’s got a stepbrother in jail, a sister in a mental institution, and a circle of friends whose lives have been touched too often by violence, chaos and death. ![]() Near the end of MK Asante’s frequently brilliant and always engaging new memoir, “Buck,” the author receives an epiphany from a dead man.Īsante is a teenager growing up in various Philadelphia neighborhoods, and his life is, by just about any measure, a mess. ![]()
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