Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon Style-Shield/Petal 51ct Salt & Pepper pear

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Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon Style-Shield/Petal 51ct Salt & Pepper pearIn this powerful, provocative, and universally lauded memoirwinner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal and finalist for the Kirkus Prizegenre bending essayist and novelist Kiese Laymon "provocatively meditates on his trauma growing up as a black man, and in turn crafts an essential polemic against American moral rot" (Entertainment Weekly). In Heavy, Laymon writes eloquently and honestly about growing up a hard headed black son to a complicated and brilliant