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| Availability Label | Location | Shelfmark | Availability | Reservations |
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Calvin Park Branch | Biography Laymo-L | On loan until: 14/May/25 |
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| Title Statement | Heavy: an American memoir / Kiese Laymon. |
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| Author | Laymon, Kiese |
| Publication | New York: Scribner,2018. |
| Edition | First Scribner hardcover edition. |
| Extent of Item | xiv, 241 pages ; |
| ISBN | 1501125656 9781501125652 |
| Other Number | 2986070 |
| Contents | Prologue: been -- Boy man -- Black abundance -- Home worked -- Addict Americans -- Epilogue: bend. |
| 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"--Provided by publisher. |
| Subjects & Genres | |
| By Topic | African Americans--Biography |
| Compulsive gamblers--Biography--United States | |
| Eating disorders--Patients--Biography--United States | |
| Mother and child--United States | |
| By Name | Laymon, Kiese |
| Laymon, Kiese--Family | |
