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In *Heavy*, Kiese Laymon offers an unflinching, lyrical examination of the scars left by violence, grief, and abuse on his body and spirit. He candidly recounts his struggles with an eating disorder and compulsive gambling, and traces how these issues thread through his family’s history. Through intimate storytelling and sober conversations with relatives and friends, Laymon brings hidden personal and cultural wounds into sharp relief, linking the deeply personal mother‑child dynamics to the broader legacy of societal devaluation and mistreatment of Black bodies in America.
First publish date: 2018
Genre: Memoir/Personal Memoir
Authors: Kiese Laymon
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