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Heavy: An American Memoir
Scris de Kiese Laymon
Povestit de Kiese Laymon
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- Simon & Schuster Audio
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- Oct 16, 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781508265818
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- Carte audio
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In this powerful and provocative memoir, genre-bending essayist and novelist Kiese Laymon 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.
Kiese Laymon is a fearless writer. In his essays, personal stories combine with piercing intellect to reflect both on the state of American society and on his experiences with abuse, which conjure conflicted feelings of shame, joy, confusion and humiliation. Laymon invites us to consider the consequences of growing up in a nation 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 mother, grandmother, anorexia, obesity, sex, writing, and ultimately gambling. 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 in this nation actually know how to responsibly love, and even fewer want to live under the weight of actually becoming free.
A personal narrative that illuminates national failures, Heavy is defiant yet vulnerable, an insightful, often comical exploration of weight, identity, art, friendship, and family that begins with a confusing childhood-and continues through twenty-five years of haunting implosions and long reverberations.
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Heavy: An American Memoir
Scris de Kiese Laymon
Povestit de Kiese Laymon
Descriere
In this powerful and provocative memoir, genre-bending essayist and novelist Kiese Laymon 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.
Kiese Laymon is a fearless writer. In his essays, personal stories combine with piercing intellect to reflect both on the state of American society and on his experiences with abuse, which conjure conflicted feelings of shame, joy, confusion and humiliation. Laymon invites us to consider the consequences of growing up in a nation 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 mother, grandmother, anorexia, obesity, sex, writing, and ultimately gambling. 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 in this nation actually know how to responsibly love, and even fewer want to live under the weight of actually becoming free.
A personal narrative that illuminates national failures, Heavy is defiant yet vulnerable, an insightful, often comical exploration of weight, identity, art, friendship, and family that begins with a confusing childhood-and continues through twenty-five years of haunting implosions and long reverberations.
- Editor:
- Simon & Schuster Audio
- Lansat:
- Oct 16, 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781508265818
- Format:
- Carte audio
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The word “Heavy” can apply to a lot of the experiences that were described throughout this memoir.
Weight. Families. Racism. Sex. Relationships.
This memoir was EVERYTHING.
It is reflective of a mother’s raising and more importantly reflective of the unspoken experience of an African American boy.- like many without a father who learns to make his own stance.
The experience is exposed with an abundance of words (his mother’s teachings).
It is a truce that unveils the burdens in which is carried to rise to the occasion of knowing self importance. Become his best self. See the blatant truth of the matter to call out the lies and make a difference! To continue to stand against the harshness of the world, put down the weight so that he may partake of his future.
I laughed at the line about the revolutionary conference in Nairobi maybe a little too much because I’m from Kenya and the image it conjured up in my mind was hilarious. My heart bled and my spirit drowned in tears for Layla, even for Laymon’s mom (the image of her picture at the grocery store against the backdrop of a known and learned media personality was sad). So much darkness, so much of a burden to bear for a young brilliant man. The truth hurts. But the pain is healing especially for those who have gone through such abuses that culturally, the black family turns a blind eye on, covers, makes excuses for. It’s my hope that in writing this, Laymon found healing and a new lease at the life that many times, seemed doomed.
A memoir that can’t be described as amazing, since only the words are, because the heaviness of it all, is just too much ???. Thank you for sharing your soul with us.