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Author Laymon, Kiese, author.

Title Heavy : an American memoir / Kiese Laymon.

Publication Info. New York, NY : Scribner, [2018]

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  305.896 LAYMON    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Biographies  92 BIOGRAPHY LAYMON    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield at the Atrium  BIOG. LAYMON, K.    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  BIOG. LAYMON, K.    Storage
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  B LAYMON, KIESE    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  305.896 LAYMON    Check Shelf
 Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Adult Department  B LAYMON K    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  B LAYMON KIESE L    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Biographies  B LAYMON    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  305.896 LAY    Check Shelf

Description xiv, 241 pages ; 22 cm
Summary "Laymon writes eloquently and honestly about the physical manifestations of violence, grief, trauma, and abuse on his own body. He writes of his own eating disorder and gambling addiction as well as similar issues that run throughout his family. Through self-exploration, storytelling, and honest conversation with family and friends, Heavy seeks to bring what has been hidden into the light and to reckon with all of its myriad sources, from the most intimate--a mother-child relationship--to the most universal--a society that has undervalued and abused black bodies for centuries"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents Prologue: Been -- Boy man -- Black abundance -- Home worked -- Addict Americans -- Epilogue: bend.
Note Five pages of "Praise for Heavy" precede title page.
Subject Laymon, Kiese.
Laymon, Kiese -- Family.
Laymon, Kiese. (OCoLC)fst01934171
African Americans -- Biography.
Compulsive gamblers -- United States -- Biography.
Eating disorders -- Patients -- United States -- Biography.
Mother and child -- United States.
African Americans. (OCoLC)fst00799558
Compulsive gamblers. (OCoLC)fst00871965
Eating disorders -- Patients. (OCoLC)fst00901206
Families. (OCoLC)fst01728849
Mother and child. (OCoLC)fst01026878
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
HISTORY / United States / General.
United States.
Genre/Form Autobiographies.
Autobiographies. (OCoLC)fst01919894
Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
ISBN 9781501125652 (hardcover)
1501125656 (hardcover)
9781501125669 (trade paperback)
1501125664 (trade paperback)
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