Hawkins, Lee

Hawkins’s memoir is deeply reflective and transparent about his personal story and family history, sharing the love, restrictions, violence, and trauma he experienced throughout his life as a Black man living in a post–civil rights movement world. This work is vitally important and essential to understanding the magnitude of the impact of racism and violence.

Although the author has clinical credentials and experience, unfortunately the bulk of the material may float over the heads of more rational, cynical readers looking for pragmatic suggestions that do not require a leap of faith into the world of New Age mysticism.