Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson

**ADAPTED INTO THE FILM "ORIGIN" DIRECTED BY AVA DUVERNAY. NOW IN THEATERS** 1.56M COPIES SOLD•NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FOR OVER ONE YEAR•NATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLISTThe Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken caste system that has shaped America and shows how our lives today are still defined by a hierarchy of human divisions.“An instant American classic and almost certainly the keynote nonfiction book of the American century thus far.”—Dwight Garner, The New York TimesIn this influential bestseller, Isabel Wilkerson gives a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched narrative and stories about real people, how America today and throughout its history has been shaped by a hidden caste system, a rigid hierarchy of human rankings.Beyond race, class, or other factors, there is a powerful caste system that influences people's lives and behavior and the nation's fate. L