How we Fight for our Lives : : a Memoir

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Call Number: Black Studies 921 Jones, Saeed, 921 Jones, Saeed, Adult Book / Nonfiction / Biography / Literary / Jones, Saeed
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Black Studies 921 Jones, Saeed	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	921 Jones, Saeed	4-week checkout	Due 12-31-2024
Pittsfield Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Nonfiction / Biography / Literary / Jones, Saeed	4-week checkout	Due 11-07-2024
Westgate Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Nonfiction / Biography / Literary / Jones, Saeed	4-week checkout	Due 12-08-2024

Haunted and haunting, Jones's memoir tells the story of 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 mother and grandmother, 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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Beautiful submitted by Xris on June 12, 2023, 2:47pm Beautiful, descriptive writing, centered around his relationship with his mother. But some of the violence in the sex scenes was unnerving. I hope a better way of life has come to this gay, black man.