Pulling the Chariot of the Sun Young Adult Brian Pinkney guides readers through

Brian Pinkney guides readers through a young child’s day

that codifying racial subjugation has become the norm rather than the exception

” the iconic and loving ode to Black boyhood

winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize and a Whiting Award

Pulling the Chariot of the Sun Young Adult Brian Pinkney guides readers throughAn unforgettable memoir by an award winning poet about being kidnapped from his Black father and raised by his white supremacist grandparents. When Shane McCrae was three years old, his grandparents kidnapped him and took him to suburban Texas. His mom was white and his dad was Black, and to hide his Blackness from him, his maternal grandparents stole him from his father. In the years that followed, they manipulated and controlled him, refusing to