Welcome to Braggsville

A small cohort of Berkeley students descend on Braggsville to punk a Civil War re-enactment with a “performative intervention” as they stage a lynching. It goes horribly awry forcing a new perspective on the motives and actions of everyone involved.

Hand-wringing millennials versed in academic theory whipped into liberal indignation go suddenly quiet when things leave the abstract and get suddenly real. The latent racism (you're soaking in it) that surrounds us making it difficult to see. Our misguided motivations and how nothing is ever clearly black or white.

It was a book that deserved more attention than my post-Christmas, holiday jag could devote and I found myself dragging through some chapters - but it's still sticking with me despite that.