A review by jessielinden1
Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon

5.0

Necessarily uncomfortable and uncomfortably necessary… To be read by Americans. To be read by white Americans. To exist at all, as a piece of art in the world. A memoir now favorited in my mind as much for its incredible quality of writing as for its deep insights about America via this one author and his story, gut wrenching to read though it is. Though written to his mother, it was impossible for me not to find Laymon’s story and the revelations he shared compelling.
In summary, the back of the book says it “asks all of us to confront the terrifying possibility that few of us know how to responsibly love,” and I agree with one of the reviewers: “we’re lucky to eavesdrop.”