The Imani Perry Reading List
The <em>Atlantic</em> contributing writer and author of the Unsettled Territory newsletter is the winner of the 2022 National Book Award for Nonfiction.
by Gal Beckerman
Nov 16, 2022
1 minute
Imani Perry, a contributing writer to , has won the National Book Award for Nonfiction for her book . Melding the language of poetry and historical research, Perry sought to understand the South, the region where she in , the South is “both an idea and a region,” and one she says she has been obsessed with since her birth. She visited more than a dozen Southern cities with an eye toward finding the hidden horrors of their history but also the many acts of resistance that return humanity to the American story.
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