“You won’t be able to put [this memoir] down…It is packed with reminders of how black dreams get skewed and deferred, yet are also pregnant with the possibility that a kind of redemption may lie in intimate grappling with black realities”
— The Atlantic
“provocatively meditates on his trauma growing up as a black man, and in turn crafts an essential polemic against American moral rot”
— Entertainment Weekly
“A book for people who appreciated Roxane Gay’s memoir Hunger”
— Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
“gorgeous, gutting…generous”
— The New York Times
Heavy
Year
2018
Pages
256
Type
Nonfiction
Tags
Praise
“You won’t be able to put [this memoir] down…It is packed with reminders of how black dreams get skewed and deferred, yet are also pregnant with the possibility that a kind of redemption may lie in intimate grappling with black realities”
— The Atlantic
“provocatively meditates on his trauma growing up as a black man, and in turn crafts an essential polemic against American moral rot”
— Entertainment Weekly
“A book for people who appreciated Roxane Gay’s memoir Hunger”
— Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
“gorgeous, gutting…generous”
— The New York Times
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