by words, punctuation, sentences, paragraphs, chapters, and white space. your insistence I read, reread, write, and revise in those books, made it so I would never be intimidated. We have always been a bent black southern family of laughter, outrageous lies, and books. have never been a family of tuck-ins and bedtime stories any more than we've been a family of consistent bill money, pantries, full refrigerators, washers and dryers. "I remembered forgiving you when Grandmama told me you beat me so much because something in Jackson was beating you," he writes. Grandmama is a font of wisdom and unconditional love. Laymon's grandmother (his mother's mother) is his anchor. She keeps a running critique of her son's weight. She has a violent relationship with a man whom Kiese loathes and goes out of his way to avoid.
To raise him to excellence, she beats him regularly. and postgraduate work as Laymon was coming up in Jackson, Mississippi, and in Maryland. This fierce woman is a prominent political scientist who completed her Ph.D.
In clear, animated prose, Laymon writes in the second person, addressing himself to his mother. Heavy is a compelling record of American violence and family violence, and the wide, rutted embrace of family love. It is about the jagged, uneven road to becoming a writer and a man it is a chronicle of daily confrontations with the twin assaults of American racism and America's weight-obsessed culture. Heavy recounts growing up in a ferociously intellectual household - the only child of a single mother - as a black boy who struggles with weight.
I found something noteworthy on almost every page. I have dog-eared too many pages to close my copy of Kiese Laymon's Heavy: An American Memoir. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Heavy Subtitle An American Memoir Author Kiese Laymon
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