Everyone should read this book. That is not something I say often, or something I say lightly, but I truly believe it. While I had studied the Middle Passage and the Map of No Return in grad school, reading Clint Smith's deeply affective, embodied reactions to places like Goree Island and Angora Prison was gut-wrenching and deeply emotional. Smith is a poet, and his own emotional reactions are viscerally written about here. He manages to balance that deep emotion with interviews and well-researched history, bringing it all together in a way that is deeply compelling and challenged me to think through my own history and memory through a new lens.