Book : How We Fight For Our Lives A Memoir - Jones, Saeed

-Titulo Original : How We Fight For Our Lives A Memoir

-Fabricante :

Simon & Schuster

-Descripcion Original:

From award-winning poet Saeed Jones, How We Fight for Our Lives-winner of the Kirkus Prize and the Stonewall Book Award-is a “moving, bracingly honest memoir” (The New York Times Book Review) written at the crossroads of sex, race, and power. One of the best books of the year as selected by The New York Times; The Washington Post; NPR; Time; The New Yorker; O, The Oprah Magazine; Harper’s Bazaar; Elle; BuzzFeed; Goodreads; and many more.“People don’t just happen,” writes Saeed Jones. “We sacrifice former versions of ourselves. We sacrifice the people who dared to raise us. The ‘I’ it seems doesn’t exist until we are able to say, ‘I am no longer yours.’” Haunted and haunting, How We Fight for Our Lives is a stunning coming-of-age memoir about 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 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 another-and to one another-as we fight to become ourselves. An award-winning poet, Jones has developed a style that’s as beautiful as it is powerful-a voice that’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. Review PRAISE FOR HOW WE FIGHT FOR OUR LIVES BY SAEED JONES “[A] devastating memoir….Jones is fascinated by power (who has it, how and why we deploy it), but he seems equally interested in tenderness and frailty. We wound and save one another, we try our best, we leave too much unsaid….A moving, bracingly honest memoir that reads like fevered poetry.”-THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW A raw and eloquent memoir. One could say that Saeed Jones new memoir, How We Fight for Our Lives, is a classic coming-of-age story….But Jones voice and sensibility are so distinct that he turns one of the oldest of literary genres inside out and upside down. How We Fight for Our Lives is at once explicitly raunchy, mean, nuanced, loving and melancholy. Its sometimes hard to read and harder to put down. -MAUREEN CORRIGAN, NPRS FRESH AIR Extremely personal, emotionally gritty, and unabashedly honest, How We Fight for Our Lives is an outstanding memoir that somehow manages a perfect balance between love and violence, hope and hostility, transformation and resentment.....Jones writes with the confidence of a veteran novelist and the flare of an accomplished poet. This is an important coming-of-age story thats also a collection of tiny but significant joys. More importantly, its a narrative that cements Jones as a new literary star - and a book that will give many an injection of hope.-NPR “Urgent, immediate, matter of fact….The prose in Saeed Jones’s memoir How We Fight for Our Lives shines with a poet’s desire to give intellections the force of sense impressions.”-THE NEW YORKER Jones’ explosive and poetic memoir traces his coming-of-age as a black, queer, and Southern man in vignettes that heartbreakingly and rigorously explore the beauty of love, the weight of trauma, and the power of resilience.-ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY [Jones] tenacious honesty compels us to be honest with ourselves. His experiences-negotiating grief, family dynamics, and a forthright identity-require our reckoning.-KIRKUS PRIZE 2019 CITATION “[This] memoir marks the emergence of a major literary voice…written with masterful control of both style and material.” -KIRKUS REVIEWS (STARRED REVIEW) “Powerful…Jones is a remarkable, unflinching storyteller, and his book is a rewarding page-turner.”-PUBLISHERS WEEKLY