How we fight for our lives : a memoir /
by Jones, Saeed.
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BookPublisher: New York : Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2020Description: xviii, 192 pages ; 21 cm.ISBN: 9781501132742 (pbk.) :; 1501132741 (pbk.) :.Classification number: 920 JONSubject(s): Jones, Saeed | African American poets -- 21st century -- Biography | Poets, American -- 21st century -- Biography | Gay authors -- United States -- Biography | Biography | Biography | LGBTQ+ InterestSummary: Haunted and haunting, 'How We Fight for Our Lives' is a coming-of-age memoir. Jones tells the story of 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 readers 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.
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Originally published: New York: Simon & Schuster.
Haunted and haunting, 'How We Fight for Our Lives' is a coming-of-age memoir. Jones tells the story of 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 readers 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.
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