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How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir
By : Saeed Jones
DESCRIPTION : 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