Ordinary Notes

"There are 248 “notes” contained in Christina Sharpe’s collection. Among them are personal and historical photographs, letters, reading lists, observations and definitions. Taken together, they create a portrait of Black life – both Sharpe’s singular life and the collective lives of Black people – that is honest and thought provoking and heartbreaking and, above all, exquisite. Though Sharpe calls this collection Ordinary Notes, there is nothing at all ordinary about it."