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5.0
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Wow, yeah. Oof. 

One of the most beautiful books of essays and criticism that I've ever read, and some of the most beautiful writing you could read period. Hanif Abdurraqib writes with such reverence, compassion, and deep honesty about music, art, culture that it fills you with a drive to be a better person. The way he's able to extrapolate and connect his subject matters to broad topics in human experience such as love, life, grief, community, etc. is truly revelatory. I think I wept profusely through like 90% of this book as I made my way through reading it. The type of writer that feels like he changes your life after you read him.