Author Ben Philippe talks about his new book "Sure, I'll Be Your Black Friend: Notes From the Other Side of the Fist Bump."

About the book:
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a good white person of liberal leanings must be in want of a Black friend.
In the biting, hilarious vein of "What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker" and "We Are Never Meeting in Real Life" comes Ben Philippe’s candid memoir-in-essays, chronicling a lifetime of being the Black friend (see also: foreign kid, boyfriend, coworker, student, teacher, roommate, enemy) in predominantly white spaces. 

About Ben Philippe:
Ben Philippe is the author of the young adult novels "Field Guide to the North American Teenager", winner of the 2020 William C. Morris Award, and "Charming as a Verb". In 2021, Philippe published his first work of adult nonfiction, "Sure, I’ll Be Your Black Friend".

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