Heavy | Kiese Laymon

The most accurate one word description of this memoir is the title. Sexual abuse, generational trauma, poverty, racism, addiction: all of these issues and more plague Kiese growing up. There's hope, too: he does grow up, and has written this stunning book about it. Against the background of the South, this is a quintessential American story. There is black joy, black abundance, black truth. A must-read.

Paperback | 256 pages | ISBN: 9781526605764