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How to Make a Slave Coming of Age Fiction A timeless message to aThe essays in this collection are restless, brilliant and short.The brevity suits not just Walkers style but his worldview, too.Keeping things quick gives him the freedom to move; he can alight on a truth without pinning it into place. Jennifer Szalai, the New York TimesFor the black community, Jerald Walker asserts in How to Make a Slave, anger is often a prelude to a joke, as there is broad understanding that the triumph over this destructive