A review by moonyreadsbystarlight
How We Fight For Our Lives by Saeed Jones

emotional reflective

5.0

This was amazing and beautifully written. This begins looking at the author's childhood and his experience as a gay Black boy in the south. It focuses not just on his understanding of sexuality, but how that impacts many relationships in his life. The middle goes into his time in college, more fraught in understanding how he relates to himself. Throughout the whole book, he has mentioned his mother, but the last section hones in on this relationship at the end of her life. 

I can't begin to really talk about how impactful various parts of this were for me. Suffice it to say, this was incredible and moving. 
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