![]() ![]() *Named a Best Book of 2018 by the New York Times, Publishers Weekly, NPR, Broadly, Buzzfeed (Nonfiction), The Undefeated, Library Journal (Biography/Memoirs), The Washington Post (Nonfiction), Southern Living (Southern), Entertainment Weekly, and The New York Times Critics* "Awards: Chautauqua, Branford Boase Shortlists". "Awards: B&N Discover New Writers Lambda Literary". ^ "Booklist Editors' Choice: Adult Books, 2018"."The Best Southern Books of the Year 2018". ^ Canfield, David Greenblatt, Leah ().^ "LJ Editors Select the Best Books of the Year"."These Are The 23 Best Nonfiction Books Of 2018". ^ "Best Books 2018 Publishers Weekly"."Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon review – bodies and the legacy of slavery". "Kiese Laymon writes a true American memoir with 'Heavy': EW review". "The Bracing Honesty of Kiese Laymon's Memoir 'Heavy' ". Datebook | San Francisco Arts & Entertainment Guide. "Weighed down by our past: 'Heavy: An American Memoir,' by Kiese Laymon". " 'Heavy' by Kiese Laymon may be the most important memoir you read this year". "In 'Heavy,' Kiese Laymon Recalls the Weight of Where He's Been". " 'Heavy' Brilliantly Renders The Struggle To Become Fully Realized". ^ "Nonfiction Book Review: Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon.^ "Book Marks reviews of Heavy by Kiese Laymon"." 'The Great Believers,' 'Heavy: An American Memoir,' receive 2019 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction". "Awards: Carnegie Medal DSC Prize for South Asian Literature GLLI Translated YA Book". ![]() Reference and User Services Association's Notable Books of the Year Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Nonfiction Goodreads Choice Award for Memoir & AutobiographyĪndrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfictionīarnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award for Nonfiction The New York Times included it in their list of the best 50 memoirs of the past 50 years. Entertainment Weekly and Southern Living included it in their overall list of the best books of the year, and The Chicago Public Library placed it in the top ten books of the year. Library Journal named it one of the best memoirs of the year. Heavy was named one of the best nonfiction of 2018 by Kirkus Reviews, The New York Times, Publishers Weekly, NPR, Buzzfeed, and Boston Public Library. It promises an intimacy that he never delivers on." The Guardian's Sukhdev Sandhu provided a mixed review, saying "he’s best when writing about his own feelings." Sandhu continued, "Laymon’s prose can be erratic, lurching between showy 'y’alls' and academese such as 'modes of memory' There are many sententious and underdeveloped proclamations." Near the end of the book, Sandhu noted that Laymon "sounds merely pompous." Sandhu also found the way the book addressed Laymon's mother using the second-person pronoun "you" to be "trangest of all" the language used in the book, saying, "It comes across as a device, as a contrivance. In reviews, the books was called "harrowing," "gorgeous," "spectacular," "dynamic," and "unsettling in all the best ways." In her review for Booklist, Anne Bostrom said the book was "o artfully crafted, miraculously personal, and continuously disarming," that it is, "at its essence, powerful writing about the power of writing." Writing for the New York Times, Jennifer Szaili wrote, "This generous, searching book explores all the forces that can stop even the most buoyant hopes from ever leaving the ground.” The Los Angeles Times's Nathan Deuel said, " Heavy is one of the most important and intense books of the year because of the unyielding, profoundly original and utterly heartbreaking way it addresses and undermines expectations for what exactly it’s like to possess and make use of a male black body in America." Heavy received rave reviews from Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, Booklist, NPR, The New York Times Book Review, The Atlantic, Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, San Francisco Chronicle, TIME, Entertainment Weekly, and Library Journal. In 2019, the book won the Carnegie Medal for Nonfiction and Los Angeles Times Book Prize, among other awards and nominations. ![]() Heavy: An American Memoir is a memoir by Kiese Laymon, published Octoby Scribner. ![]()
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