Every generation needs a primer
This one is for grown-ups.
From A to Z, A is for Anal teaches the vocabulary your grown-up will meet on campus, at the march, and across the Thanksgiving table. Twenty-six words. Twenty-six full-page illustrations. Twenty-six Classroom Tips, so you can reinforce the lesson at home.
C is for Check Your Privilege.
E is for Equity,
which is not equality.
F is for From the River to the Sea,
a geography slogan whose river and whose sea remain, to this day, unnamed.
H is for Harm,
the word that turns disagreement into injury.
P is for Pallywood.
S is for Safe Space,
where challenging ideas are held gently until they stop moving.
Z is for Zionist,
a label now applied to anyone who knows Israel is the indigenous homeland of the Jewish people.
The format is the joke.
Bright letters, cheerful illustrations, the patient cadence of the books we read to children, applied to a vocabulary built to end arguments rather than win them. The slogans are real, and the movements are real. The classroom is invented, and so are its teachers and its students.
The hardcover
G is for Gift.
Sturdy enough for a dorm room. Bright enough for the coffee table. Not suitable for children, which makes it ideal for everyone on your list who has been to college.
Your college freshman.
Pack it next to the shower caddy. By midterms, they will need both.
Your student, home for Thanksgiving.
They learned twenty-six new words this semester. Now you know them too.
The parents paying tuition.
Tuition pays for the vocabulary. This is the answer key.
Grandma and Grandpa.
They keep asking what the kids are chanting. Now there is a picture book.
The professor.
Assign it. They will recognize the material.
The White Elephant exchange.
The only gift that gets stolen and then read.
Give the hardcover
For Hanukkah, Christmas, graduation, and any holiday that ends at a family table.
Class is in session
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