how we fight for our lives review

As a black man, he faces racism within the white gay community, racism that exoticizes his body with fantasy at the same time it deeply punishes his spirit for enacting. We’d love your help. 5 stars for the second part.I'm not sure how to rate this book. In How We Fight for Our Lives, award-winning poet Saeed Jones (Prelude to Bruise) weaves a series of stinging, memorable vignettes into a powerful coming-of-age memoir. After growing up believing that “being a black gay boy is a death wish,” he takes to openly gay collegiate life with a “ferocity” that alarms his college friends. Jonesâ body becomes a weapon, aimed at revenge.The memoir comes alive just as the author is forced to deal with his motherâs death. 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. Jones’s background in poetry is evident in the quality and flow of the writing, because this is one of my most beautifully written memoirs I’ve read in quite some time. I worried because of Jones's background in poetry that his memoir might be too abstract, too poem-like for me. But among the pain in this book, you also feel the interminable love of a son for his mother. He lives in Columbus, Ohio.

Prelude to Bruise; Buy this book. It is strange to me, sometimes, when people who are still quite young - he is in his thirties - write memoirs, but Jones really does have an important and relevant story to tell and one that I am glad I had a chance to read. Published He takes us on his journey as he grows into himself and discovers what it means to be a black man, a gay man and a gay black man (in the south, no less). What messages did a young Jones, who would grow up to become a BuzzFeed editor and a leading voice on identity issues, internalize or reject?That’s not to say that “How We Fight for Our Lives” is devoid of introspection or searing cultural commentary, particularly about race and sexuality.

What a brave young man to share his experiMany thanks to Simon & Schuster and NetGalley for an ARC of this book. It’s an elegy to so much that Jones has clearly worked to grow through amongst some enormous loss and terrifying violence, and an entire nation state fighting against his very survival. This is a memoir everyone needs in their life. I didn’t know what I was expecting from this memoir but this was so much more. After her death, he writes, âThere were no masks left for me to hide behind.â And it is in this unmasking most of all that the book â and the title â breathe with their own fresh and resonant life. It’s an elegy to so much that Jones has clearly worked to grow through Saeed Jone’s How We Fight For Our Lives was the queer Black memoir exploring adolescence, striving, self loathing, racism in the gay community, intimate partner violence, grief, poverty, and that quintessential imperfect profoundly complex relationship between a son and his mother that everyone needs to read. This book, read by the author himself, is so beautiful and so honest and so full of peer and also hope and also pain.

How We Fight For Our Lives is powerful, captivating, heart wrenching and also full of strength. Family. And throughout the book his Mom shines through which makes me miss my own Mom.

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