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Heavy: An American Memoir -- Kiese Laymon, Paperback Politics / Current Events she has her tools to*Selected as One of the Best Books of the 21st Century by The New York Times* *Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal and Finalist for the Kirkus Prize* *Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, Publishers Weekly, NPR, Broadly, BuzzFeed, and more* The powerful, provocative, award winning, and universally lauded memoir by genre bending essayist and novelist Kiese Laymon. In Heavy, Laymon writes eloquently and honestly about growing up a hard