Death of England: Michael

After the sudden death of his father, Michael stands in a cemetery, powerless and angry, confronting the difficult truths about his dad's legacy and the country that shaped them both. A working-class white man unravelling in real time, Michael wrestles with grief, guilt, and a dawning awareness of his own complicity in the prejudices he inherited. Clint Dyer and Roy Williams's electrifying opening chapter of the Death of England trilogy is a raw, funny, and devastating state-of-the-nation monologue.