#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER *; OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK *;From the National Book Awardwinning author of Between the World and Me, a boldly conjured debut novel about a magical gift, a devastating loss, and an underground war for freedom.

';This potent book about America's most disgraceful sin establishes [Ta-Nehisi Coates] as a first-rate novelist.'San Francisco Chronicle

';Nearly every paragraph is laced through with dense, gorgeously evocative descriptions of a vanished world and steeped in its own vivid...