The Resource Heavy : an American memoir, Kiese Laymon
Heavy : an American memoir, Kiese Laymon
Resource Information
The item Heavy : an American memoir, Kiese Laymon represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Bedford Public Library.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
Resource Information
The item Heavy : an American memoir, Kiese Laymon represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Bedford Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
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- "Laymon writes eloquently and honestly about the physical manifestations of violence, grief, trauma, and abuse on his own body. He writes of his own eating disorder and gambling addiction as well as similar issues that run throughout his family. Through self-exploration, storytelling, and honest conversation with family and friends, Heavy seeks to bring what has been hidden into the light and to reckon with all of its myriad sources, from the most intimate--a mother-child relationship--to the most universal--a society that has undervalued and abused black bodies for centuries"--
- "In this powerful and provocative memoir, Kiese Laymon fearlessly explores what the weight of a lifetime of secrets, lies, and deception does to a black body, a black family, and a nation teetering on the brink of moral collapse. Laymon invites us to consider the consequences of living in a country wholly obsessed with progress yet wholly disinterested in the messy work of reckoning with where we've been. In Heavy, Laymon writes eloquently and honestly about growing up a hard-headed black son to a complicated and brilliant black mother in Jackson, Mississippi. From his early experiences of sexual violence, to his suspension from college, to his trek to New York as a young college professor, Laymon charts his complex relationship with his family, weight, sex, gambling, and writing. By attempting to name secrets and lies he and his mother spent a lifetime avoiding, Laymon asks himself, his mother, his nation, and us to confront the terrifying possibility that few of us know how to responsibly love"--
- Language
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- eng
- eng
- eng
- Edition
- First Scribner hardcover edition.
- Extent
- xiv, 241 pages
- Contents
-
- Been
- I. Boy man :
- Train
- Nan
- Wet
- Be
- II. Black abundance :
- Meager
- Contraction
- Hulk
- Gumption
- III. Home worked :
- Fantastic
- Disaster
- Already
- Soon
- IV. Addict Americans :
- Greens
- Terrors
- Seat belts
- Promises
- Bend
- Isbn
- 9781501125652
- Label
- Heavy : an American memoir
- Title
- Heavy
- Title remainder
- an American memoir
- Statement of responsibility
- Kiese Laymon
- Language
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- eng
- eng
- eng
- Summary
-
- "Laymon writes eloquently and honestly about the physical manifestations of violence, grief, trauma, and abuse on his own body. He writes of his own eating disorder and gambling addiction as well as similar issues that run throughout his family. Through self-exploration, storytelling, and honest conversation with family and friends, Heavy seeks to bring what has been hidden into the light and to reckon with all of its myriad sources, from the most intimate--a mother-child relationship--to the most universal--a society that has undervalued and abused black bodies for centuries"--
- "In this powerful and provocative memoir, Kiese Laymon fearlessly explores what the weight of a lifetime of secrets, lies, and deception does to a black body, a black family, and a nation teetering on the brink of moral collapse. Laymon invites us to consider the consequences of living in a country wholly obsessed with progress yet wholly disinterested in the messy work of reckoning with where we've been. In Heavy, Laymon writes eloquently and honestly about growing up a hard-headed black son to a complicated and brilliant black mother in Jackson, Mississippi. From his early experiences of sexual violence, to his suspension from college, to his trek to New York as a young college professor, Laymon charts his complex relationship with his family, weight, sex, gambling, and writing. By attempting to name secrets and lies he and his mother spent a lifetime avoiding, Laymon asks himself, his mother, his nation, and us to confront the terrifying possibility that few of us know how to responsibly love"--
- Assigning source
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- Provided by publisher
- Provided by publisher
- Biography type
- autobiography
- Cataloging source
- LBSOR/DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Laymon, Kiese
- Dewey number
- 305.896/073
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- E185.97.L394
- LC item number
- A3 2018
- Literary form
- non fiction
- NLM call number
- E185.97.L394
- NLM item number
- A3 2018
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Laymon, Kiese
- Laymon, Kiese
- African Americans
- Compulsive gamblers
- Eating disorders
- Mother and child
- African Americans
- Label
- Heavy : an American memoir, Kiese Laymon
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Been -- I. Boy man : -- Train -- Nan -- Wet -- Be -- II. Black abundance : -- Meager -- Contraction -- Hulk -- Gumption -- III. Home worked : -- Fantastic -- Disaster -- Already -- Soon -- IV. Addict Americans : -- Greens -- Terrors -- Seat belts -- Promises -- Bend
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First Scribner hardcover edition.
- Extent
- xiv, 241 pages
- Isbn
- 9781501125652
- Lccn
- 2018002915
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other control number
- 40028606828
- System control number
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- (OCoLC)on1044612166
- (OCoLC)on1044612166
- Label
- Heavy : an American memoir, Kiese Laymon
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Been -- I. Boy man : -- Train -- Nan -- Wet -- Be -- II. Black abundance : -- Meager -- Contraction -- Hulk -- Gumption -- III. Home worked : -- Fantastic -- Disaster -- Already -- Soon -- IV. Addict Americans : -- Greens -- Terrors -- Seat belts -- Promises -- Bend
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First Scribner hardcover edition.
- Extent
- xiv, 241 pages
- Isbn
- 9781501125652
- Lccn
- 2018002915
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other control number
- 40028606828
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)on1044612166
- (OCoLC)on1044612166
Subject
- Autobiographies
- Biography
- Biography
- Carnegie Medal -- 2019
- Compulsive gamblers -- United States -- Biography
- Eating disorders -- Patients -- United States -- Biography
- African Americans -- Biography
- Laymon, Kiese -- Family
- Mother and child -- United States
- Laymon, Kiese
- Autobiographies
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