6/22/2023 0 Comments Heavy by kiese![]() Laymon taps those deep emotional and physical wounds - along with the suffocating weight of history, repressed memory, sexism, racism and his own abused body - to mirror profound truths about himself and his country. A brilliant academic and fierce warrior for African-American freedom, she’s also a troubled single parent who, at times, oppressed and brutalized her only child. The book is an unflinching exploration of poverty, toxic masculinity, sexual violence, anorexia and bulimia and an overweight boy’s codependent relationship with his disciplinarian mother. ![]() The stunning, aptly titled new memoir “Heavy” - Kiese Laymon’s sweeping self-exploration about growing up in Mississippi in the 1980s - is a veritable cornucopia of black urban pathologies, set in an impoverished state that’s become shorthand for American racism. ![]()
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