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How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir

English

By (author): Saeed Jones

WINNER OF THE 2020 STONEWALL BOOK AWARD-ISRAEL FISHMAN NONFICTION AWARD

Joness voice and sensibility are so distinct that he turns one of the oldest of literary genres inside out and upside down. NPRS Fresh Air

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, Jones draws readers into his boyhood and adolescenceinto 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 anotherand to one anotheras we fight to become ourselves.

An award-winning poet, Jones has developed a style thats as beautiful as it is powerfula voice thats 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. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 163g
  • Dimensions: 133 x 203mm
  • Publication Date: 06 Aug 2020
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781501132742

About Saeed Jones

Saeed Jones is the author of Prelude to Bruise winner of the 2015 PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry and the 2015 Stonewall Book Award/Barbara Gittings Literature Award. The poetry collection was also a finalist for the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award as well as awards from Lambda Literary and the Publishing Triangle in 2015. Jones was born in Memphis Tennessee and grew up in Lewisville Texas. He earned a BA at Western Kentucky University and an MFA at Rutgers University-Newark. He lives in Columbus Ohio and tweets @TheFerocity.

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