Talk to Me

by Rich Benjamin

Author of SEARCHING FOR WHITOPIA and New Yorker contributor Rich Benjamin's TALK TO ME, a memoir tracing the fall-out in his mother's life of the CIA-backed coup that ended his grandfather's two-week long presidency of Haiti in 1957, the secrecy that shrouded that trauma within his family, and how it carried into his own life, coming of age as a black boy with sickle cell anemia in Reagan's America, to Naomi Gibbs at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

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About the author

I like to entertain, read, travel, golf, and eat.

I am a cultural anthropologist and the author of Searching for Whitopia. My writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Washington Post and elsewhere. Also, I've appeared as a commentator on MSNBC and CNN. I am grateful for the support that my work has received from the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, the Ford Foundation, Princeton University, the Rockefeller Foundation, the New York Historical Society, and the Harvard-Radcliffe Institute.

Reviews

[Chip Fisher · Rating 5 out of 5]

An extraordinary and very personal account of someone who grew up with a great legacy and then wrote about it with great passion and depth. A must read for anyone who enjoys personal histories.