★★★★★
Kiese Laymon’s Heavy is the deeply personal memoir of a Black boy growing up in Jackson, Mississippi and learning from experiences at once traumatic and uplifting, careless and loving, heavy and light.

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★★★★★
Kiese Laymon’s Heavy is the deeply personal memoir of a Black boy growing up in Jackson, Mississippi and learning from experiences at once traumatic and uplifting, careless and loving, heavy and light.