Passionate, powerful and searing: a timely collection of essays on issues of race, culture, family and what is tearing modern America apart, by a vibrant and unique new voice in US literature
Kiese Laymon grew up in Jackson, Mississippi. That was where he started to write and where he began to seek to create an honest account of living in the US, a country striving to declare itself multi-cultural, post-racial and mostly innocent. This is that account.
Drawing on his own personal experiences, these essays are Laymon's attempt to deal with many issues occupying America today, from race, identity and writing to music, celebrity and violence.
