One Question Deeper: Across the Line

Two people. One line.

280 questions and 560 follow-ups for a Black American and a White American who already know each other. That last part is the condition, not a suggestion. This is not a book for strangers, a workshop, or an audience. It is for two people with enough history between them to survive the conversation.

Eight sections: First Notice, Where We Lived, The Ladder and the Street, Sunday and What We Borrowed, History Class and Love Across the Line, The Things People Say, The Feelings Nobody Names, and Us and What Now.

Depth markers run from easy through to deep, and they are there to be respected. What was the first song by an artist of the other race that you loved? sits a long way from What have you said about race, in front of me, that you wish you could take back?

Both people answer every question. Neither one is the subject. Either may pass, anytime, with no explanation owed, and the pass is used here more than anywhere else in the series, by design.

Every question carries two follow-ups and a cue for the listener: what to watch for while the other person answers. Not what to say next. What to notice.

Curiosity is an invitation, never a demand.

Delivered as EPUB. No DRM.