white tears

An obsession with early blues, the search for a handful of surviving LPs from the 1920s across the American Deep South, the mighty remnants of only formally ceased slavery, and souls which today cling less seriously to the same body. The highlight of summer reading begs the question of how Hari Kunzru is able to deliver such an epic work a mere three years after Gods Without Men. And with some balls.

There’s also a modern definition of private property, page 40: “… I think the meaning of private property had never quite sunk in for me until then; its weight, its peculiar authority. Privacy was disconnection, the power to take a section of the world offline.”

author: Harry Kunzru
title: White tears
Hamish Hamilton, Penguin books