Bibliograph

How we fight for our lives, a memoir, Saeed Jones

Type

Label

How we fight for our lives, a memoir, Saeed Jones

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

How we fight for our lives

Oclc number

1086495363

Responsibility statement

Saeed Jones

Sub title

a memoir

Summary

Haunted and haunting, Jones's memoir 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 that chart a course across the American landscape, Jones draws readers into his boyhood and adolescence--into tumultuous relationships with his mother and grandmother, 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 another--and to one another--as we fight to become ourselves

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