This is a well-written short memoir about the author’s family, body, and experiences as a black boy and man in America. Kiese Laymon is an English professor from Mississippi, and this memoir starts when he was 11 and continues through his 40s, though of course covering so many years in 241 pages mea...
Kiese Laymon is one of the best contemporary writers that I know of.It was a challenge to stay present for this narrative & to let its painful moments settle into my body & my understanding. But this is a book that mattered to me instantly & I think you should read it.----"Nothing I'd read in school...
Through ninth grade black Mississippian narrator City Coldson, Laymon takes on a lot here: race issues (and there are a lot of separate issues this book covers, inter- as well as intra-race ), but there are also strong themes of sexuality and gender--notions of masculinity, different types of love, ...
Who doesn't love a good fusion of Southern Literature, magical realism and time travel? Hooked from page one by the characters and held rapt with the plot twists. Best book I've read so far this year. Review.
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