The first review for Welcome to Oakland is in. I’m expecting many more but this one really gets to the heart of why I love the book.

“Eric Miles Williamson’s Welcome to Oakland is the book the Beats would have written if their privileged upbringings hadn’t sent them to the Horace Manns and Columbias of the world. Seldom a book comes along that walks into your comfortable suburban living room, grabs you by your designer lapels, and screams in your face, ‘This is the truth, man.'”

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