Laymon's truth-telling reveals itself for the revolutionary act that is, both personally and politically. Both histories prove difficult to contemplate, but over 241 pages we come to see that ignoring them means death for the author and our collective whole as a country. His is a personal trajectory that runs parallel to America's long, harrowing, and violent history of white supremacy. Rather, he is driven by the pursuit of truth, no matter how devastating it may be. He is uninterested in creating a false sense of progress or improvement. In pursuit of a way forward, he examines and exposes the lies told in pursuit of safety-lies that ultimately annihilate any chance of real safety or belonging-and suggests that the only freedom is through radical honesty.įrom his first sentence, Laymon establishes his intention to set the record straight on a complicated and compelling personal narrative. In his new and searingly honest memoir Heavy, Kiese Laymon interrogates what it means to be African-American, a son, and a man in our country.
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