Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon

Heavy: An American Memoir

Kiese Laymon

241 pages first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction memoir challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
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In this powerful, provocative, and universally lauded memoir—winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal and finalist for the Kirkus Prize—genre-bending essayist and novelist Kiese Laymon "provocatively meditates on his trauma growing up as a black man, a...

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emotional 86%
reflective 79%
challenging 65%
sad 48%
dark 39%
tense 23%
informative 17%
inspiring 17%
hopeful 14%
funny 5%

Pace

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fast 19%
slow 11%

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