Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon

Heavy: An American Memoir

Kiese Laymon

241 pages first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction memoir challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
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In this powerful, provocative, and universally lauded memoir—winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal and finalist for the Kirkus Prize—genre-bending essayist and novelist Kiese Laymon "provocatively meditates on his trauma growing up as a black man, a...

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Moods

emotional: 87%

reflective: 79%

challenging: 64%

sad: 50%

dark: 41%

tense: 25%

inspiring: 19%

informative: 18%

hopeful: 15%

funny: 6%


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