How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir

Name: How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir
Author: Saeed Jones
ISBN: 9781501132742

Saeed Jones

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How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir

Saeed Jones

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How We Fight for Our Lives won the Kirkus Prize and the Stonewall Book Award. "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 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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