Won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction. Heavy is widely cited as one of the great Black Southern memoirs of the 21st century.
Kiese Laymon — Heavy
2018 Laymon memoir on his Mississippi childhood, body, food, and writing.
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