Opening the Road: Victor Hugo Green and His Green Book Sociology of Class "Okri is always good company

"Okri is always good company and these twenty-odd tales showcase his lucid prose and freewheeling imagination

” —ALEXANDER SMALLS

Yusef unpacks the systems built and designed for profit and the oppression of Black and Brown people

In the small community of Owl Creek

How Are You Going to Save Yourself illuminates in breathtaking detail an entire world-one that has been underrepresented in American fiction

Opening the Road: Victor Hugo Green and His Green Book Sociology of Class "Okri is always good companyThe true, untold story of the postal worker who wrote The Green Book. "Hungry? Check the Green Book. Tired? Check the Green Book. Sick? Check the Green Book." In the late 1930s when segregation was legal and Black Americans couldn't visit every establishment or travel everywhere they wanted to safely, a New Yorker named Victor Hugo Green decided to do something about it. Green wrote and published a guide that listed places where his fellow Black