Bibliograph

Heavy, an American memoir, Kiese Laymon

Type

Label

Heavy, an American memoir, Kiese Laymon

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Heavy

Oclc number

1044612166

Responsibility statement

Kiese Laymon

Sub title

an American memoir

Summary

"In this powerful and provocative memoir, Kiese Laymon fearlessly explores what the weight of a lifetime of secrets, lies, and deception does to a black body, a black family, and a nation teetering on the brink of moral collapse. Laymon invites us to consider the consequences of living in a country wholly obsessed with progress yet wholly disinterested in the messy work of reckoning with where we've been. 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 his trek to New York as a young college professor, Laymon charts his complex relationship with his family, weight, sex, gambling, and writing. By attempting to name secrets and lies he and his mother spent a lifetime avoiding, Laymon asks himself, his mother, his nation, and us to confront the terrifying possibility that few of us know how to responsibly love"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Prologue: been -- Boy man -- Black abundance -- Home worked -- Addict Americans -- Epilogue: bend

Target audience

adult

Classification