The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me who has always dreamed of owning a sweet shop. His ambition is strengthened by the fact that there is an abandoned building named The Grubber, an old English word for a sweet shop, near where he lives. One day, he finds that the old building has been renovated and has become the head office for The Ladderless Window-Cleaning Company. Billy then meets its workers: a Giraffe with an extendable neck; a Pelican, or "Pelly" as he is called by the others, who has a flexible upper beak; and a singing and dancing Monkey, all of whom he quickly befriends. Having
Between the World and Me man discovering the site of a lynching and becoming incapacitated with fear, creating a barrier between himself and the world. Despite many changes in "Between the World and Me", Coates always planned to end the book with the story of Mabel Jones. The only endorsement Coates sought was that of novelist Toni Morrison, which he received. "Between the World and Me" was published by Spiegel & Grau in 2015. "Between the World and Me" takes the form of a book-length letter from the author to his son, adopting the structure of Baldwin's "The Fire Next Time"; the latter is directed,