Christina Sharpe's Ordinary Notes is a dazzlingly inventive and powerful exploration of Black life, art, language, beauty and memory. Its more than three hundred notes collect into startling, rigorously constructed, beautiful layers, ranging across history, photography and literature to attend to everyday Black existence. Sharpe's consideration of Black life's ordinary-extraordinary dimensions shape-shifts through her mother's aesthetic of beauty as a method, gathers entries toward a dictionary of untranslatable Blackness, and probes sites of memory and memorials.