A review by hollydyer328
Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

Very emotional love letter from Kiese Laymon to his mother. You see the interconnection of his complicated relationship with his mom and surviving racism as a Black man, and how he explores various facets of manipulating his body to cope. It’s a perspective you do to hear as much from a Black man but one that is so important! His writing is very poetic and emotional, which I had a hard time getting into at first but grew to enjoy.
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