Reading:
Claudia Rankine, 139-61
Study Questions:
1. Pages 139-146 include many lines that call back to earlier moments in the book: drowning in the world, the injured body, wait with me, call you out, call out to you, etc. How do these lines resonate with you now as you are reaching the end of the book? What are you thinking and feeling as you read? How have your responses changed since you first read these lines earlier in the book?
2. Discuss the closing of this book and the closing line, “It wasn’t a match. It was a lesson” (159).
