damn near might still be is what it is Author|Michael Brodkorb and Allison Mann "Taking a compassionate and clear-eyed

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damn near might still be is what it is Author|Michael Brodkorb and Allison Mann "Taking a compassionate and clear-eyeddamn near might still be is what it is is part autofiction, part memoir and travelogue, part road novel, part journal entry. Beginning in New York and winding first around the country, with stops in Kansas City and Colorado, then around the world, the unnamed narrator of damn near confronts what it means to be American, to be Black, to be a tourist and penniless and to fall in love in cities like London, Vienna, and Milan. Central to the book are