TY  - BOOK
AU  - Laymon,Kiese
TI  - Heavy: an American memoir 
SN  - 9781501125652 (hbk.)
AV  - E185.97.L394 A3 2018
U1  - 305.896/073 23
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Scribner
KW  - Laymon, Kiese
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Biography
KW  - Compulsive gamblers
KW  - United States
KW  - Eating disorders
KW  - Patients
KW  - Mother and child
KW  - Autobiographies
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Prologue: been -- Boy man -- Black abundance -- Home worked -- Addict Americans -- Epilogue: bend
N2  - "Laymon writes eloquently and honestly about the physical manifestations of violence, grief, trauma, and abuse on his own body. He writes of his own eating disorder and gambling addiction as well as similar issues that run throughout his family. Through self-exploration, storytelling, and honest conversation with family and friends, Heavy seeks to bring what has been hidden into the light and to reckon with all of its myriad sources, from the most intimate--a mother-child relationship--to the most universal--a society that has undervalued and abused black bodies for centuries"--
ER  -