In Aisha Sabatini Sloan’s essay collection ‘Dreaming of Ramadi in Detroit,’ the references are wide-ranging and ever-relevant, from the writing of Kiese Laymon to the singing of Aretha Franklin.
Have you ever read a book and wished it came with a syllabus? Welcome to Works Cited, where we ask authors about the books, movies, music, art, and TV that influenced or inspired their writing.has never felt more relevant. Part of the book’s timelessness can be explained by its wide-ranging references, which oscillate between mediums — from themovie. The questions around the societal ills confronted in the book are ever-present, but Sabatini Sloan’s essays never lean on easy answers.
Even as the book itself progresses, so does the perspective of the person writing it. Sabatini Sloan’s relationship to policing, for example, evolves in a major way. In one essay, she visits Detroit, where her family comes from, and is invited to ride along with her cousin, who is a cop. She grapples with her cousin’s position in the community and, by extension, her own.
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