A review by lattelibrarian
How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America by Kiese Laymon

5.0

This was absolutely riveting, necessary, stunning, poignant.  Laymon takes no shortcuts talking about his grandfather, the times guns have been pulled on him, police violence, community trauma.  Every word just gets me--it's a book that I checked out from the library, and now want nothing more than to own just so I can mark it up, reread it, remind myself of my place in society and how I can listen and help.

Blending personal experience with general societal narratives, he dissects and understands, and reworks so much of what we think we already know and understand.  And he does it in a way that's just...incredible.  Powerful.  Necessary.  

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