PositiveThe Open Letters Review\"Young’s faith in his readers’ emotional maturity here is refreshing. No space is wasted on half-adequate reconciliations or explanations; the violence is individual, and he gives it the space it needs ... As a treatment of blackness (or brownness), and of the inextricable violence at the center of its history, Brown can feel surprisingly reserved ... If Young tends toward the meditative over the clamorous, and toward familiar over unexplored territory, that may be a good thing. After all, the ghosts of collective memory, like the now-dilapidated Bryant’s Grocery, live on, and someone must tend to them.\
