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  • Heavy

  • Auteur(s): Kiese Laymon
  • Narrateur(s): Kiese Laymon
  • Durée: 6 h et 17 min
  • 4,8 out of 5 stars (66 évaluations)

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Heavy

Auteur(s): Kiese Laymon
Narrateur(s): Kiese Laymon
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2018 Audible Audiobook of the Year!

Winner of the 2019 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction! 

Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal and Kirkus Prize Finalist!

Named a Best Book of 2018 by The New York Times, Publishers Weekly, NPR, Broadly, Buzzfeed (Nonfiction), The Undefeated, Library Journal (Biography/Memoirs), The Washington Post (Nonfiction), Southern Living (Southern), Entertainment Weekly, and The New York Times Critics

In this powerful and provocative memoir, genre-bending essayist and novelist Kiese Laymon explores what the weight of a lifetime of secrets, lies, and deception does to a Black body, a Black family, and a nation teetering on the brink of moral collapse. 

Kiese Laymon is a fearless writer. In his essays, personal stories combine with piercing intellect to reflect both on the state of American society and on his experiences with abuse, which conjure conflicted feelings of shame, joy, confusion, and humiliation. Laymon invites us to consider the consequences of growing up in a nation wholly obsessed with progress yet wholly disinterested in the messy work of reckoning with where we’ve been. 

In Heavy, Laymon writes eloquently and honestly about growing up a hard-headed Black son to a complicated and brilliant Black mother in Jackson, Mississippi. From his early experiences of sexual violence to his suspension from college to his trek to New York as a young college professor, Laymon charts his complex relationship with his mother, grandmother, anorexia, obesity, sex, writing, and ultimately gambling. By attempting to name secrets and lies he and his mother spent a lifetime avoiding, Laymon asks himself, his mother, his nation, and us to confront the terrifying possibility that few in this nation actually know how to responsibly love, and even fewer want to live under the weight of actually becoming free. 

A personal narrative that illuminates national failures, Heavy is defiant yet vulnerable, an insightful, often comical exploration of weight, identity, art, friendship, and family that begins with a confusing childhood - and continues through 25 years of haunting implosions and long reverberations.

©2018 Kiese Laymon (P)2018 Simon & Schuster

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Excellent

Heavy is absolutely anything I’ve ever read before. Vulnerable. Clever. The dog got walked much longer because I didn’t want to stop listening. Brilliant.

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Incredible

Unbelievably vulnerable, honest and forthright. It’s the best book I’ve consumed in a long time. I won’t be forgetting its wisdom anytime soon and definitely plan to read it in word-form soon, too. Highly recommend.

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Transcendent

Heavy is a stunning memoir, beautifully read. It will transform you. Listen to it. Read it.

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Well done

This book was well done- written and performed. It felt very authentic, sometimes uncomfortably honest and filled with so much food for thought. Perfect title- Heavy. Heavy physically and emotionally. The complex characters of the people in his life were portrayed beautifully. Excellent memoir. Now I wish I could have a conversation with the author.

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Phenomenal

Phenomenal.

Highly recommend the Audible version. Kiese Laymon is a highly talented wordsmith. Experiencing this story read by him infuses his written words with even deeper meaning and power.

Highly recommended.

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Thank you

Thank you Kiese for telling a story so uniquely yours and troublingly universal. I will not soon forget how it made me feel and think. May it inspire all of us to do better.

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I can’t write about perfection

Thank You for a compelling revelation. This white guy has had his eyes opened. The author reading his story is true perfection.

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Spectacular!

What an incredible piece of literature. Mr. Laymon is a masterful writer who has an unprecedented way with language. The fact that I was listening to him narrate it just made the experience that much better. This story - which is a story that all of us can relate to, in one way or another, is one which will stay with me for awhile and one which I may well revisit again. I’ve stayed away from press about this book while I was listening but I’m now hungry to read more about the author, his journey, and where he and his mother are today.

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