Very excited to share the cover of my new book, How the Word Is Passed. It’s my first book of nonfiction and I’m really proud it. It’s coming out June 1, 2021 and is now available for preorder. I hope you’ll consider getting a copy and spreading the word.

https://www.littlebrown.com/titles/clint-smith/how-the-word-is-passed/9780316492935/

I worked harder on this than anything I’ve ever done. Traveled across the country (and an ocean) to try and understand how different places reckon with, or fail to reckon with, their relationship to the history of slavery. To try and understand how these places tell that story.

This book began after watching the major Confederate monuments come down in my hometown of New Orleans in 2017 and realizing I had grown up in a city where there had been more homages to enslavers than to enslaved people. I wanted to understand how something like that happened.

So I decided to explore how this happened not only in my city, but across the country. I learned so much and I can’t wait to share it with you all.

Pre-ordering makes a big difference with these things, so if you can it would mean a whole lot if you did. I appreciate it so much.

Oh! And consider ordering from your local independent bookstore. They need our help more than ever.