Ta-Nehisi Coates on Homecomings

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Excerpt:

“Everyone wants some place to retreat, to collapse, to be at home—but you can’t always go home again. In the summer of 2001, my family and I moved into the Prospect-Lefferts Garden neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York. I was 25. My partner was 24. Our son was 11 months.”