Pulling the Chariot of the Sun

Vulture ’s #1 Memoir of 2023 An unforgettable, “lyrical and poignant” ( The Washington Post ) 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