MEMOIRS
Ben Philippe
Sure, I’ll Be Your Black Friend: Notes from the Other Side of the Fist Bump
Ben Philippe
HarperPerennial,
April
The Haitian-born New Yorker (by way of Montreal) flexes the wit that made his two young-adult novels critically acclaimed in a memoir that both celebrates and bristles at the morally righteous way progressives align themselves with Black people and culture. His book comes complete with the answer to the probing question, “How much Beyoncé is too much Beyoncé?”