A review by lowercase_a
Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon
challenging
inspiring
reflective
tense
medium-paced
4.0
It made me see shrimp colors. It shaped things that i’d had in the back of my mind into words, and those words, into memory and hope. Heavy is a nuanced testment of love, loss, anger, grieve, addiction, body image, the importance of education an so much more.
Nothing about this memoir is straightfoward or simple. Kiese Laymon’s portrayal of white hegemony, power struggles, violence and generational legacy is analytical, sensite and sincere, a testimony and a manifesto demanding us to face the social order around us and our place in it.
Nothing about this memoir is straightfoward or simple. Kiese Laymon’s portrayal of white hegemony, power struggles, violence and generational legacy is analytical, sensite and sincere, a testimony and a manifesto demanding us to face the social order around us and our place in it.