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Heavy : an American memoir / Kiese Laymon

By:

Laymon, Kiese

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Scribner , c2018Edition: First Scribner hardcover editionDescription: 241 p. ; 22 cmISBN:

9781501125652

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

92 LAY

LOC classification:

PS3612.A959 Z46 2018

Contents:

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

Summary: Laymon writes about the physical manifestations of violence, grief, trauma, and abuse on his own body. He writes of his own eating disorder and gambling addiction as well as similar issues that run throughout his family. Through self-exploration, storytelling, and honest conversation with family and friends, Heavy seeks to bring what has been hidden into the light and to reckon with all of its myriad sources, from the most intimate - a mother-child relationship - to the most universal - a society that has undervalued and abused black bodies for centuries.

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

Laymon writes about the physical manifestations of violence, grief, trauma, and abuse on his own body. He writes of his own eating disorder and gambling addiction as well as similar issues that run throughout his family. Through self-exploration, storytelling, and honest conversation with family and friends, Heavy seeks to bring what has been hidden into the light and to reckon with all of its myriad sources, from the most intimate - a mother-child relationship - to the most universal - a society that has undervalued and abused black bodies for centuries.

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