This opens in 1981 with his white mother giving 6 year old Darrin The Talk, and ends in 2020 with him giving his own 6 year old son The Talk. For a GN, it‘s not a quick read, or an easy one, because the weight of 40 years of processing the ways in which racism and racially motivated behavior affect his life are fatiguing even just to read about. #blackhistorymonth