![]() ![]() ![]() This fierce woman is a prominent political scientist who completed her Ph.D. In clear, animated prose, Laymon writes in the second person, addressing himself to his mother. Heavy is a compelling record of American violence and family violence, and the wide, rutted embrace of family love. ![]() It is about the jagged, uneven road to becoming a writer and a man it is a chronicle of daily confrontations with the twin assaults of American racism and America's weight-obsessed culture. Heavy recounts growing up in a ferociously intellectual household - the only child of a single mother - as a black boy who struggles with weight. I found something noteworthy on almost every page. I have dog-eared too many pages to close my copy of Kiese Laymon's Heavy: An American Memoir. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Heavy Subtitle An American Memoir Author Kiese Laymon ![]()
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