How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir

How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir

WINNER OF THE 2019 KIRKUS PRIZE IN NONFICTION

A NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2019 SELECTION

One of the most anticipated books of Fall 2019â€”as selected by O, The Oprah Magazine; Marie Claire; Entertainment Weekly; Time; The Millions; Refinery29; Good Housekeeping; and many more.

â€œA moving, bracingly honest memoir that reads like fevered poetry.â€ â€”THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

â€œJonesâ€™s voice and sensibility are so distinct that he turns one of the oldest of literary genres inside out and upside down.â€ â€”NPRâ€™S FRESH AIR

â€œAn astonishing, unparalleled memoirâ€¦A rhapsody in the truest sense of the word.â€ â€”ROXANE GAY

â€œEvery single living half-grown and grown-up body needs to read this book.â€ â€”JACQUELINE WOODSON

â€œPeople donâ€™t just happen,â€ writes Saeed Jones. â€œWe sacrifice former versions of ourselves. We sacrifice the people who dared to raise us. The â€˜Iâ€™ it seems doesnâ€™t exist until we are able to say, â€˜I am no longer yours.â€™â€

Haunted and haunting, How We Fight for Our Lives is a stunning coming-of-age memoir. Jones 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 adolescenceâ€”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 anotherâ€”and to one anotherâ€”as we fight to become ourselves.

An award-winning poet, Jones has developed a style thatâ€™s as beautiful as it is powerfulâ€”a voice thatâ€™s by turns a river, a blues, and a nightscape set ablaze. How We Fight for Our Lives is a one-of-a-kind memoir and a book that cements Saeed Jones as an essential writer for our time.
Country USA
Brand Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer Simon & Schuster
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber unknown
ReleaseDate 2019-10-08
UnitCount 1
UPCs 001501132733
EANs 0001501132733

Country	USA
Brand	Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer	Simon & Schuster
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	unknown
ReleaseDate	2019-10-08
UnitCount	1
UPCs	001501132733
EANs	0001501132733

How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir

You might also like...