How We Fight For Our Lives

Name: How We Fight For Our Lives
ISBN: 9781501132735

Saeed Jones

2019·208 pages·Nonfiction

Biography

memoir

“moving, bracingly honest memoir”
— The New York Times Book Review

“People don’t just happen,” writes Saeed Jones. “We sacrifice former versions of ourselves. We sacrifice the people who dared to raise us. The ‘I’ it seems doesn’t exist until we are able to say, ‘I am no longer yours.’””
— Saeed Jones

a young, black, gay man from the South as he fights to carve out a place for himself, within his family, within his country, within his own hopes, desires, and fears. Through a series of vignettes that chart a course across the American landscape, Jones draws readers into his boyhood and adolescence—into tumultuous relationships with his family, into passing flings with lovers, friends, and strangers. Each piece builds into a larger examination of race and queerness, power and vulnerability, love and grief: a portrait of what we all do for one another—and to one another—as we fight to become ourselves.

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How We Fight For Our Lives

Saeed Jones

Year

2019

Pages

208

Type

Nonfiction

Biography

Praise

“moving, bracingly honest memoir”
— The New York Times Book Review

“People don’t just happen,” writes Saeed Jones. “We sacrifice former versions of ourselves. We sacrifice the people who dared to raise us. The ‘I’ it seems doesn’t exist until we are able to say, ‘I am no longer yours.’””
— Saeed Jones