Heavy: An American Memoir (Large Print / Library Binding)

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November 2018 Indie Next List


“Telling the truth has always been a radical and political act, but Kiese Laymon writes in Heavy with a rare, vulnerable unity of personal urgency and political clarity. This is a story about how our country’s lies and thefts weigh heavily on the hearts and souls of its black mothers and sons. About how dishonesty about white supremacy, money, sex, and violence threads through our most intimate relationships and causes us to become strangers to ourselves. If Heavy is about lies, it is also fundamentally about the redemptive power of truth, stories, language, and joy. If there’s a way out of the loneliness of being human in a country that does not value or support humanity, Laymon suggests, it is in the connection we find in the words we toss to one another, like lifelines, like laughter.”
— E.R. Anderson, Charis Books & More, Atlanta, GA

Product Details
ISBN: 9781432861421
ISBN-10: 1432861425
Large Print: Yes
Publisher: Thorndike Press Large Print
Publication Date: February 27th, 2019
Pages: 345
Language: English