Uncovering the Dark Secrets Beneath the Surface in Matthew Morris’s The Tilling
Reviewed by Anri Wheeler
To read The Tilling (Seneca Review Books; December 2024) by Matthew Morris is to go along with the narrator on a journey of self-discovery. Winner of the 2024 Deborah Tall Lyric Essay Book Prize, the collection of ten essays puts Morris’ reckoning with his racial identity in conversation with famous Black writers and intellectuals, seminal works of popular culture, and myriad people — friends, classmates, acquaintances, aggressors — invited and unsolicited, who have commented on his race and skin color.
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