Nico Slate is a Professor in the Department of History at Carnegie Mellon University, and the author of four books, including Lord Cornwallis Is Dead: The Struggle for Democracy in the United States andIndia and Gandhi’s Search for the Perfect Diet: Eating with the World in Mind.
"A searing, hauntingly poignant memoir."—Kirkus Reviews
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“Let’s be clear. Brothers is a love story. A tragic, beautiful,
riveting, soulshaking love story. It is a love story between boys,
men, mothers and sons, fathers and sons, and brothers. It is a love
story that doesn’t so much cross the color line as study it and
reveal its elusive nature, its shape-shifting form as border, wall,
bludgeon, rope, threshold, even a lifeline. Nico Slate writes with
clarity, disarming honesty, rawness, and beauty matched only by his
brother’s extraordinary life and character. Brothers is a journey
of discovery and recovery, an unfinished struggle to piece together
the fragments of a man who, in the midst of wrestling with his own
demons and disappointments, managed to make those he loved whole.
Concealed in the many lives of Peter Slate, there is more here than
meets the eye.”—Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Thelonious Monk: The
Life and Times of an American Original
“A gripping and pertinent account, Brothers explores the bonds of
race, family, and love with disarming honesty and probing
insight.”—Jasmin Darznik, author of the New York Times bestselling
memoir The Good Daughter
“This captivating memoir, written by acclaimed historian Nico
Slate, recounts the remarkable, yet tragically short, life of
Slate’s older brother as he navigated the complex terrain of race
in the United States. In lively and compelling prose, Slate offers
an honest and moving story that illuminates the power of family and
the true meaning of brotherhood. This memoir challenges and
inspires, leaving readers with a treasure trove of rich insights on
race, history, and family.”—Keisha N. Blain, author of Set the
World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for
Freedom
“Slate’s memoir Brothers circles the question of race’s
meaningingfulness [sic] and meaninglessness as a social construct
as seen through the relationship of two siblings: one Black and one
white. Brothers is a memento mori for Slate’s older
brother Peter, a prolific scriptwriter and DJ also known as XL the
1I…. A gentle elegy, Brothers also goes beyond grief and
childhood memories to comment on culture’s intimate ramifications
while resurrecting the complexity of Peter as a person: creative,
dreamer, brother, father figure, and Black man.”—Foreword
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