Name: Heavy
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Author: Kiese Laymon

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In Heavy, a genre-bending memoir, challenging essayist and novelist Kiese Laymon delves into the effects of a lifetime of secrets, lies, and deception.  He 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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