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Heavy

Kiese Laymon

What does it cost to tell the truth about your family, your body and your country, in a memoir written to his mother that refuses to lie?

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At a glance

Author
Kiese Laymon

Why read it

  • You will see why telling the truth about your own life is hard, and why the lie is tempting
  • You will learn how love between a parent and child can be tangled up with fear, food and control
  • You will notice the lies a reader is expected to accept about success, weight and race in America

Who it is for

  • Readers who want memoir without a tidy redemption story
  • Anyone who struggles with their body, weight or food
  • People thinking about race, family and honesty

Contents

  1. BEEN
  2. TRAIN
  3. NAN
  4. WET
  5. BE
  6. MEAGER
  7. CONTRACTION
  8. HULK
  9. GUMPTION
  10. FANTASTIC
  11. DISASTER
  12. ALREADY
  13. “Already?”
  14. SOON
  15. GREENS
  16. TERRORS
  17. SEAT BELTS
  18. PROMISES
  19. BEND

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