A Year in Reading: Kashana Cauley

We live in an ugly era, full of people trying to build community and others who are attempting to shoot community in the face one round at a time. Like so many other Americans, I got hate crimed this year. Some asshole threw a sharp object at my leg when I was on the last mile of my daily run. After whatever the fuck it was made contact with my leg, he shouted “run nigger run.” After I spent a suitable amount of time ripping on him for his unoriginality (can’t the racists invent a new racial slur?) I found myself most drawn to books with ugly emotions in them. I wanted to read about desperate people. People who made bad