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Resumen del Editor
From award-winning poet Saeed Jones, How We Fight for Our Lives - winner of the Kirkus Prize and the Stonewall Book Award - is a “moving, bracingly honest memoir” (The New York Times Book Review) written at the crossroads of sex, race, and power.
One of the best books of the year as selected by The New York Times; The Washington Post; NPR; Time; The New Yorker; O, The Oprah Magazine; Harper’s Bazaar; Elle; BuzzFeed; Goodreads; and many more.
“People don’t just happen,” writes Saeed Jones. “We sacrifice former versions of ourselves. We sacrifice the people who dared to raise us. The ‘I’ it seems doesn’t exist until we are able to say, ‘I am no longer yours.’”
Haunted and haunting, How We Fight for Our Lives is a stunning coming-of-age memoir about a young, Black, gay man from the South as he fights to carve out a place for himself, within his family, within his country, within his own hopes, desires, and fears. Through a series of vignettes that chart a course across the American landscape, Jones draws listeners into his boyhood and adolescence - into tumultuous relationships with his family, into passing flings with lovers, friends, and strangers. Each piece builds into a larger examination of race and queerness, power and vulnerability, love and grief: a portrait of what we all do for one another - and to one another - as we fight to become ourselves.
An award-winning poet, Jones has developed a style that’s as beautiful as it is powerful - a voice that’s by turns a river, a blues, and a nightscape set ablaze. How We Fight for Our Lives is a one-of-a-kind memoir and an audiobook that cements Saeed Jones as an essential writer for our time.
Reseñas de la Crítica
"Listeners gain an intimate sense of Saeed Jones's life through vignettes he presents with grace, compassion, and ferocity.... Jones narrates unflinchingly through early curiosity about his sexuality, homophobia from family and community, and damaging sexual encounters. While he's skilled at creating voices for everyone in his audiobook, certain voices - taunting slurs, crazed declarations of violence - are particularly chilling. Through his dynamic narration, listeners will feel as though they are sharing intense confidences and moments of joy with a close friend." (AudioFile magazine)
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A fierce memoir of a mother's murder, a daughter's coming-of-age in the wake of immense loss, and her ultimate mission to know the woman who gave her life.
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True crime memoir
- De Julie en 11-03-17
De: Sarah Perry
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Scars and Stilettos - 2nd Edition
- De: Harmony Dust
- Narrado por: Harmony Dust
- Duración: 7 h y 12 m
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Scars and Stilettos: At 13, after being abandoned by her mother one summer and left to take care of her younger brother, Harmony becomes susceptible to a relationship that turns out to be toxic, abusive, and ultimately exploitative. She eventually finds herself working in a strip club at the age of 19, and her boyfriend becomes her pimp, controlling her every move and taking all of her money. Ultimately, she discovers a path to freedom and a whole new life.
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A religious book
- De Amazonbuyer en 10-12-21
De: Harmony Dust
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Where I Left Her
- De: Amber Garza
- Narrado por: Vivienne Leheny
- Duración: 9 h y 8 m
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Whitney had some misgivings when she dropped her increasingly moody teenage daughter, Amelia, off at Lauren’s house. She’d never met the parents, and usually she’d go in, but Amelia clearly wasn’t going to let something so humiliating happen, so instead Whitney waved to her daughter before pulling away from the little house with the roses in front. But when she goes back the next day, an elderly couple answers the door - Amelia and Lauren aren’t there, and this couple swears they never were, that she’s at the wrong house.
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Kept me guessing!!
- De Sheppardspie en 09-13-21
De: Amber Garza
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Color Me In
- De: Natasha Díaz
- Narrado por: Bahni Turpin
- Duración: 11 h y 15 m
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Growing up in an affluent suburb of New York City, 16-year-old Nevaeh Levitz never thought much about her biracial roots. When her Black mom and Jewish dad split up, she relocates to her mom's family home in Harlem and is forced to confront her identity for the first time. Nevaeh wants to get to know her extended family, but because she inadvertently passes as white, her cousin thinks she's too privileged, pampered, and selfish to relate to the injustices African Americans face on a daily basis.
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Mixed feelings about this book
- De Rachel Kohlbrenner en 02-02-20
De: Natasha Díaz
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The Fourth Child
- A Novel
- De: Jessica Winter
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 12 h y 54 m
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The author of Break in Case of Emergency follows up her the “extraordinary debut” (The Guardian) with a moving novel about motherhood and marriage, adolescence and bodily autonomy, family and love, religion and sexuality, and the delicate balance between the purity of faith and the messy reality of life.
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Just OK - Considered Bailing
- De Madeleine Homan en 04-18-21
De: Jessica Winter
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The UnAmericans
- Stories
- De: Molly Antopol
- Narrado por: Jennifer Van Dyck
- Duración: 7 h y 47 m
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Again and again, Molly Antopol’s deeply sympathetic characters struggle for footing in an uncertain world, hounded by forces beyond their control. Their voices are intimate and powerful and they resonate with searing beauty. Antopol is a superb young talent, and The UnAmericans will long be remembered for its wit, humanity, and heart.
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Sensational stories! Brilliant new author.
- De MidwestGeek en 05-04-14
De: Molly Antopol
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Man Alive
- A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness and Becoming a Man
- De: Thomas Page McBee
- Narrado por: Thomas Page McBee
- Duración: 3 h y 1 m
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What does it really mean to be a man? In Man Alive, Thomas Page McBee attempts to answer that question by focusing on two of the men who most impacted his life - one, his otherwise ordinary father who abused him as a child, and the other, a mugger who almost killed him. Standing at the brink of the life-changing decision to transition from female to male, McBee seeks to understand these examples of flawed manhood and tells us how a brush with violence sent him on the quest to untangle a sinister past and freed him to become the man he was meant to be.
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- De Kade en 05-30-18
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Tell Me Everything
- A Novel
- De: Cambria Brockman
- Narrado por: Ariadne Meyers
- Duración: 12 h y 40 m
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In her first weeks at Hawthorne College, Malin is swept up into a tight-knit circle that will stick together through all four years. There’s Gemma, an insecure theater major from London; John, a tall, handsome, wealthy New Englander; Max, John’s cousin, a shy pre-med major; Khaled, a wisecracking prince from Abu Dhabi; and Ruby, a beautiful art history major. But Malin isn’t like the rest of her friends. She’s an expert at hiding her troubled past - all while using her extraordinary insight to detect their deepest vulnerabilities and weaknesses.
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beware
- De keith y. en 10-03-19
De: Cambria Brockman
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Bettyville
- De: George Hodgman
- Narrado por: Jeff Woodman
- Duración: 10 h y 57 m
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When George Hodgman leaves Manhattan for his hometown of Paris, Missouri, he finds himself - an unlikely caretaker and near-lethal cook - in a head-on collision with his aging mother, Betty, a woman of wit and will. Will George lure her into assisted living? When hell freezes over. He can't bring himself to force her from the home both treasure - the place where his father's voice lingers, the scene of shared jokes, skirmishes, and, behind the dusty antiques, a rarely acknowledged conflict...
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Title Should Be Georgeville-It's All About George
- De Sara en 10-08-15
De: George Hodgman
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Growing Things and Other Stories
- De: Paul Tremblay
- Narrado por: Sean Crisden, Graham Halstead, Cassandra Campbell, y otros
- Duración: 11 h y 59 m
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A chilling collection of psychological suspense and literary horror from the multiple award-winning author of the national best seller The Cabin at the End of the World and A Head Full of Ghosts. A masterful anthology featuring 19 pieces of short fiction, Growing Things and Other Stories is an exciting glimpse into Paul Tremblay’s fantastically fertile imagination.
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Paul Tremblay is totally nuts.
- De Gary & Jay en 07-07-19
De: Paul Tremblay
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After Visiting Friends
- A Son's Story
- De: Michael Hainey
- Narrado por: Dan John Miller
- Duración: 8 h y 5 m
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Michael Hainey had just turned six when his uncle knocked on his family's back door one morning with the tragic news: Bob Hainey, Michael's father, was found alone near his car on Chicago's North Side, dead, of an apparent heart attack. Thirty-five years old, a young assistant copy desk chief at the Chicago Sun-Times, Bob was a bright and shining star in the competitive, hard-living world of newspapers, one that involved booze-soaked nights that bled into dawn. And then suddenly he was gone.
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Son's Search for Father Brings on Self-knowledge
- De sheila kehoe en 08-15-13
De: Michael Hainey
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The Opposite of Loneliness
- Essays and Stories
- De: Marina Keegan
- Narrado por: Emily Woo Zeller
- Duración: 5 h y 41 m
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Marina Keegan's star was on the rise when she graduated magna cum laude from Yale in May 2012. She had a play that was to be produced at the New York International Fringe Festival and a job waiting for her at the New Yorker. Tragically, five days after graduation, Marina died in a car crash. Even though she was just 22 when she died, Marina left behind a rich, expansive trove of prose that, like her title essay, captures the hope, uncertainty, and possibility of her generation.
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Probably buy the book too.
- De Soupergirl en 09-14-15
De: Marina Keegan
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When a Stranger Comes to Town
- De: Michael Koryta
- Narrado por: Cindy Kay, Janina Edwards, Fajer Al-Kaisi, y otros
- Duración: 11 h y 39 m
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It's been said that all great literature boils down to one of two stories—a man takes a journey, or a stranger comes to town. While mystery writers have been successfully using both approaches for generations, there's something undeniably alluring in the nature of a stranger: the uninvited guest, the unacquainted neighbor, the fish out of water. In the newest collection of stories by the Mystery Writers of America, each author weaves a fresh tale surrounding the eerie feeling that comes when a stranger enters our midst, featuring stories by prolific mystery writers.
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The narrators are outstanding here.
- De Jennifer Baratta She/Her en 05-16-21
De: Michael Koryta
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My Body
- De: Emily Ratajkowski
- Narrado por: Emily Ratajkowski
- Duración: 5 h y 16 m
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Emily Ratajkowski is an acclaimed model and actress, an engaged political progressive, a formidable entrepreneur, a global social media phenomenon, and now, a writer. Rocketing to world fame at age 21, Ratajkowski sparked both praise and furor with the provocative display of her body as an unapologetic statement of feminist empowerment. The subsequent evolution in her thinking about our culture’s commodification of women is the subject of this book.
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so vain..
- De Emily Valdez en 01-10-22
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The Light of the World
- A Memoir
- De: Elizabeth Alexander
- Narrado por: Elizabeth Alexander
- Duración: 3 h y 45 m
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In The Light of the World, Elizabeth Alexander finds herself at an existential crossroads after the sudden death of her husband, who was just 50. Reflecting with gratitude on the exquisite beauty of her married life that was, grappling with the subsequent void, and feeling a reenergized devotion to her two teenage sons, Alexander channels her poetic sensibilities into a rich, lucid prose that describes a very personal and yet universal quest for meaning, understanding, and acceptance.
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Eloquently written, moving and beautiful memoir
- De Natalie Tomich en 04-22-15
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Heavy
- De: Kiese Laymon
- Narrado por: Kiese Laymon
- Duración: 6 h y 17 m
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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.
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Be prepared
- De Amy Eberle en 10-30-18
De: Kiese Laymon
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All This Could Be Different
- A Novel
- De: Sarah Thankam Mathews
- Narrado por: Reena Dutt
- Duración: 10 h y 37 m
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Graduating into the long maw of an American recession, Sneha is one of the fortunate ones. She’s moved to Milwaukee for an entry-level corporate job that, grueling as it may be, is the key that unlocks every door: She can pick up the tab at dinner with her new friend Tig, get her college buddy Thom hired alongside her, and send money to her parents back in India. She begins dating women—soon developing a burning crush on Marina, a beguiling and beautiful dancer who always seems just out of reach.
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Major Disappointment!!
- De Anonymous User en 11-18-22
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Between Perfect and Real
- De: Ray Stoeve
- Narrado por: MW Cartozian Wilson
- Duración: 7 h y 24 m
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Dean Foster knows he’s a trans guy. He’s watched enough YouTube videos and done enough questioning to be sure. But everyone at his high school thinks he’s a lesbian - including his girlfriend, Zoe, and his theater director, who just cast him as a “nontraditional” Romeo. He wonders if maybe it would be easier to wait until college to come out. But as he plays Romeo every day in rehearsals, Dean realizes he wants everyone to see him as he really is now - not just on the stage, but everywhere in his life. Dean knows what he needs to do.
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Transgender story that was almost really good
- De Jackson Theofore Keys en 04-30-21
De: Ray Stoeve
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Bad Feminist
- Essays
- De: Roxane Gay
- Narrado por: Bahni Turpin
- Duración: 11 h y 46 m
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A collection of essays spanning politics, criticism, and feminism from one of the most-watched young cultural observers of her generation, Roxane Gay. In these funny and insightful essays, Roxane Gay takes us through the journey of her evolution as a woman ( Sweet Valley High) of color ( The Help) while also taking listeners on a ride through culture of the last few years ( Girls, Django in Chains) and commenting on the state of feminism today (abortion, Chris Brown).
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"I am a mess of contradictions" - RG
- De Cynthia en 12-27-15
De: Roxane Gay
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How to Say Babylon
- A Memoir
- De: Safiya Sinclair
- Narrado por: Safiya Sinclair
- Duración: 16 h y 46 m
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Throughout her childhood, Safiya Sinclair’s father, a volatile reggae musician and a militant adherent to a strict sect of Rastafari, was obsessed with the ever-present threat of the corrupting evils of the Western world outside their home, and worried that womanhood would make Safiya and her sisters morally weak and impure. For him, a woman’s highest virtue was her obedience.
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Beautifully written. Powerful story.
- De Brenda Barbour en 10-22-23
De: Safiya Sinclair
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The Light of the World
- A Memoir
- De: Elizabeth Alexander
- Narrado por: Elizabeth Alexander
- Duración: 3 h y 45 m
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In The Light of the World, Elizabeth Alexander finds herself at an existential crossroads after the sudden death of her husband, who was just 50. Reflecting with gratitude on the exquisite beauty of her married life that was, grappling with the subsequent void, and feeling a reenergized devotion to her two teenage sons, Alexander channels her poetic sensibilities into a rich, lucid prose that describes a very personal and yet universal quest for meaning, understanding, and acceptance.
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Eloquently written, moving and beautiful memoir
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Heavy
- De: Kiese Laymon
- Narrado por: Kiese Laymon
- Duración: 6 h y 17 m
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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.
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Be prepared
- De Amy Eberle en 10-30-18
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All This Could Be Different
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- De: Sarah Thankam Mathews
- Narrado por: Reena Dutt
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Graduating into the long maw of an American recession, Sneha is one of the fortunate ones. She’s moved to Milwaukee for an entry-level corporate job that, grueling as it may be, is the key that unlocks every door: She can pick up the tab at dinner with her new friend Tig, get her college buddy Thom hired alongside her, and send money to her parents back in India. She begins dating women—soon developing a burning crush on Marina, a beguiling and beautiful dancer who always seems just out of reach.
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Major Disappointment!!
- De Anonymous User en 11-18-22
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Between Perfect and Real
- De: Ray Stoeve
- Narrado por: MW Cartozian Wilson
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Dean Foster knows he’s a trans guy. He’s watched enough YouTube videos and done enough questioning to be sure. But everyone at his high school thinks he’s a lesbian - including his girlfriend, Zoe, and his theater director, who just cast him as a “nontraditional” Romeo. He wonders if maybe it would be easier to wait until college to come out. But as he plays Romeo every day in rehearsals, Dean realizes he wants everyone to see him as he really is now - not just on the stage, but everywhere in his life. Dean knows what he needs to do.
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Transgender story that was almost really good
- De Jackson Theofore Keys en 04-30-21
De: Ray Stoeve
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Bad Feminist
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- De: Roxane Gay
- Narrado por: Bahni Turpin
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A collection of essays spanning politics, criticism, and feminism from one of the most-watched young cultural observers of her generation, Roxane Gay. In these funny and insightful essays, Roxane Gay takes us through the journey of her evolution as a woman ( Sweet Valley High) of color ( The Help) while also taking listeners on a ride through culture of the last few years ( Girls, Django in Chains) and commenting on the state of feminism today (abortion, Chris Brown).
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"I am a mess of contradictions" - RG
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How to Say Babylon
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- Narrado por: Safiya Sinclair
- Duración: 16 h y 46 m
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Throughout her childhood, Safiya Sinclair’s father, a volatile reggae musician and a militant adherent to a strict sect of Rastafari, was obsessed with the ever-present threat of the corrupting evils of the Western world outside their home, and worried that womanhood would make Safiya and her sisters morally weak and impure. For him, a woman’s highest virtue was her obedience.
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Beautifully written. Powerful story.
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- Carolyn J.
- 01-10-20
Powerful and Haunting
I continue to consciously marvel at how we as African Americans have to blaze paths for ourselves in an alternate reality in every aspect of life that the dominant culture refuses to see but still actively participates in making it a requirement. Saeed Jones skillfully pulls back the curtain to expose the extreme heights and near devasting depths of the non-stop rollercoaster ride that African Americans endure daily while we exist above ground in our coats of non-white skin. Our ancestors--mothers, fathers, and grandparents--are why we are able to endure and fight and thrive every day.
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- Jill
- 01-10-20
Beautiful and Honest
A beutiful and honest memoir. I love memoirs and this one did not disappoint.
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- ChocolateGoddess
- 10-25-19
Very Enjoyable
I really loved the story. The author's prospective was open and honest. I wanted the story to continue. Like, what happened with Emma!
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- JBHarris
- 05-24-21
PHENOMENAL
I loved this story! I am a fan of Saeed Jones, and to have him be this vulnerable? It was amazing.
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- Jessica
- 03-10-21
Beautifully lyrical and relatable
You can tell the author is a poet because the prose of this memoir is so wonderfully poetic. The words sing as the author reads excerpts of his own life aloud. His performance is less amazing; there are times you can hear awkward pauses or stumbling over words. Still, I think there's something special in experiencing something so personal read by the person that lived it. I share experiences, a city, and a school with this author, but think anyone can relate to the emotional truth in the story.
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- Shawnna
- 02-16-20
Incredible story!
I thoroughly enjoyed reading about Saeed’s journey. He was completely open and honest. It meant so much more to hear it in his voice. The last line had me calling out for my mother. Great ending!
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- Jennifer A.
- 06-21-23
Beautiful
Even if you didn’t know before that Saeed is a poet, you would know after reading his story. What a beautiful, honest telling of a life.
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- 03-17-24
Read it now!!
This memoir was amazing from the language and the storytelling as a whole. The storytelling of his life was raw and real I felt a connection as a black queer who is also from Texas. Amazing Saeed!!!!! Thanks for sharing your story in an authentic way, I know it wasn’t easy but you healed parts of my soul telling your story.
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- Reader X
- 11-12-19
This guy can write (and read)
Very nice flow and the narration carries you along. I hope that Mr. Jones keeps fighting for his life because I'm pretty sure that he will have a lot more to say.
Readers who have a 'do I really want to be reading about this?' moment at any point in the book... should persevere. Well worth it.
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- 09-20-20
Touching. Honest. Revealing....F**ing Stunning.
I have never read a book in one day! I am eternally grateful to finally see myself in a work displaying the many complexities and beauties of the soul.
Unflinchingly honest! A memoir that hits you with so many different emotions. I rode it like a wave back to the depths of myself.
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