Out of The Sun: Essays at the Crossroads of Race

Throughout history, at and storytelling have belonged to a privileged few. If art is a mirror to society, how much can we rely on what we see reflected? what might happen when stories consigned to the margins are brought to the righhts? 

Written in the wake of George Floyd's death, these five essays seek stories of Black lives that history has failed to record. Travelling across continents, Esi Edugyan dissects a fascinating global legacy of erasure and the ways in which contemporary Black artists are reclaiiming what has been lost. her own experience as the daughter of Ghanaian immigrants is in constant dialogue with these histories, presenting age-old social commentary in a strikingly new and personal light. 

An essential and poignant exloration of tjhe truth in storytelling, out of Sun asks difficult questions about how we reckon with reckon with the past and imagin the future.