{"id":42303,"date":"2021-12-07T21:13:54","date_gmt":"2021-12-07T21:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/?post_type=articles&p=42303"},"modified":"2021-12-07T21:44:01","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T21:44:01","slug":"gift-guide-books-reporgram-your-family","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/gift-guide-books-reporgram-your-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Gifts To Reprogram Your Family"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"A few years ago, I was wrapping Christmas<\/a> gifts<\/a> for my family. I had them all spread out on the floor amongst tissue paper and ribbons, a glass of prosecco<\/a> close at hand. Looking at my haul, I realized something: I had semi-consciously bought books for everyone, and they all had an undeniable ideological bent. Christmas gift-giving<\/a>, I realized, is an excellent opportunity to try to reprogram your family.<\/p>\n

Obviously, the holidays can be a fraught time, with everyone gathered together, ideally, along with their varying opinions<\/em>. Who wants to throw more gas on that particular fire, right? Apparently, I<\/em> do! But even if you don\u2019t have this same impulse to antagonize, hear me out: In our increasingly polarized political context, aren\u2019t we supposed to be reaching across the aisle and sharing ideas? Shouldn\u2019t we be doing everything we can to tactfully<\/em> combat the misinformation certain family members may have absorbed from certain outlets and platforms?<\/p>\n

With all that in mind, these are just a few of the eye-opening books released in 2021 that you might consider giving this year. Of course, there\u2019s no guarantee your family will actually read <\/em>them, but you can still feel smugly self-righteous in your efforts.<\/p>\n

\"<i>C
C is for Country<\/i> by Lil Nas X (Image courtesy of Random House)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
C Is for Country<\/em> by Lil Nas X<\/h5>\n

Get \u2019em while they\u2019re young, I say. This children\u2019s book by the Grammy winning queer phenom is legitimately kid-friendly\u2014no human blood was used in the book binding process, one assumes. It\u2019s a fairly standard rhyming alphabet book, but along with introducing the young\u2019uns to his pony Panini and having fun on the farm, little Lil Nas X<\/a> and illustrator Theodor Tylor III deliver a subtle message of inclusion: \u201cE is for EVERYBODY\u2014we can all share the shine.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"<i>The
The Premonition<\/i> by Michael Lewis (Image courtesy of W. W. Norton & Company)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
The Premonition: A Pandemic Story<\/em> by Michael Lewis<\/h5>\n

With another variant beginning to spread alongside effective and widely available vaccines, we are definitely in a different phase of the COVID-19 pandemic than we were when Michael Lewis published The Premonition<\/em> back in January. But there are still valuable lessons to be learned about the government\u2019s response to the crisis in this \u201csuperhero story\u201d about the experts who see COVID as a kind of dress rehearsal for something much more deadly.<\/p>\n

\"<i>Fulfillment<\/i>
Fulfillment<\/i> by Alec MacGillis (Image courtesy of Macmillan)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America <\/em>by Alec MacGillis<\/h5>\n

As Amazon boxes with their creepy smiles begin to pile up this holiday shopping season, it\u2019s worth remembering the impact of Jeff Bezos\u2019s ecommerce monopoly. The space-bound billionaire<\/a> raked in record profits during the pandemic, while Amazon employees remained underpaid and overworked. MacGillis\u2019s book details not only the human stories of those employees, but of how Amazon is reshaping nearly every aspect of American life.<\/p>\n

\"<i>An
An Ugly Truth<\/i> by Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang (Image courtesy of Harper Collins)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook\u2019s Battle for Domination<\/em> by Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang<\/h5>\n

Speaking of tech platforms that have reshaped American life\u2026 Perhaps you\u2019ve read about Facebook\u2019s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year. New York Times<\/em> reporters Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang\u2019s exhaustive history of the social network and the people who run it is an essential resource for understanding exactly how we got here.<\/p>\n

\"<i>The
The 1619 Project<\/i> (Image courtesy of Penguin Random House)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story<\/em><\/h5>\n

Based on and expanding the material in Nicole Hannah-Jones\u2019s 2019 series for The New York Times Magazine<\/em>, The 1619 Project<\/em> recenters the story of America to begin with the moment the first enslaved Africans arrived in the nascent country. From there, writers like Jamelle Bouie, Barry Jenkins<\/a>, Ibram X. Kendi, Wesley Morris and others trace the profound impact of that system on every aspect\u2014from politics to diet to infrastructure and popular music\u2014of the subsequent 250 years of American history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29097,"featured_media":42362,"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[2563,38,16,2717],"yoast_head":"\nGifts To Reprogram Your Family<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Christmas gift-giving, it turns out, is an excellent opportunity to try to reprogram your family, ideologically. 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