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named a best book of 2018 by the new york times publishers weekly npr broadly buzzfeed nonfiction the undefeated library journal biography memoirs the washington post nonfiction southern living southern entertainment weekly and the new york times critics in this powerful provocative and universally lauded memoir winner of the andrew carnegie medal and finalist for the kirkus prize genre bending essayist and novelist kiese laymon provocatively meditates on his trauma growing up as a black man and in turn crafts an essential polemic against american moral rot entertainment weekly in heavy laymon writes eloquently and honestly about growing up a hard headed black son to a complicated and brilliant black mother in jackson mississippi from his early experiences of sexual violence to his suspension from college to time in new york as a college professor laymon charts his complex relationship with his mother grandmother anorexia obesity sex writing and ultimately gambling heavy is a gorgeous gutting generous the new york times memoir that combines personal stories with piercing intellect to reflect both on the strife of american society and on laymon s experiences with abuse by attempting to name secrets and lies he and his mother spent a lifetime avoiding he asks us to confront the terrifying possibility that few in this nation actually know how to responsibly love and even fewer want to live under the weight of actually becoming free a book for people who appreciated roxane gay s memoir hunger milwaukee journal sentinel heavy is defiant yet vulnerable an insightful often comical exploration of weight identity art friendship and family through years of haunting implosions and long reverberations you won t be able to put this memoir down it is packed with reminders of how black dreams get skewed and deferred yet are also pregnant with the possibility that a kind of redemption may lie in intimate grappling with black realities the atlantic

Author : Kiese Laymon