RJ Young’s writing has appeared in Reuters, the Oklahoman, y USA Hoy. He is pulled over by the police more often than most white people change their sheets. His book, Let It Bang: A Young Black Man’s Reluctant Odyssey Into Guns (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), explores the quest, funny and searing, of a young man black man learning to shoot—a fascinating odyssey into race, guns, and self-protection in America. The most RJ Young knew about guns was that they could get him killed. Until, recently married to a white woman and in desperate need of a way to relate to his gun-loving father-in-law, Young does the unimaginable: he accepts Charles’s gift of a Glock. Let It Bang is an utterly original look at American gun culture from the inside, and from the other side—and, most movingly, the story of a young black man’s hard-won nonviolent path to self-protection.