Perspectives S31/Ep24: Bakari Sellers My Vanishing Country

My Vanishing Country is his poetic personal history. In the book Bakari Sellers awakens us to see the crisis affecting the other “Forgotten Men & Women,” who the media seldom acknowledges. For Sellers, these are his family members, neighbors, and friends. He humanizes the struggles that shape their lives: to gain access to healthcare as rural hospitals disappear; to make ends meet as the factories they have relied on shut down and move overseas; to hold on to precious traditions as their towns erode; to forge a path forward without succumbing to despair. The book is also a love letter to fatherhood—to Sellers' father, his lodestar, whose life lessons have shaped him, and to his twins, who he hopes will embrace the Sellers family name and honor its legacy.