Heavy
Ratings37
Average rating4.6
How can someone write so beautifully while at the same time convey such heartache and pain? The words flow like water...showing the author's vulnerability in it's barest form.
There's a part where he's writing to his Grandmamma and he's asking her to help him with his words. He then lays out his pain for her, still in written form, and asks for her help again. Broke my heart with the sadness and utter devstation that he shares.
Then you keep reading and are smacked with this: “Everything you thought you knew changes tomorrow. Being twice as excellent as white folk will get you half of what they get. Being anything less will get you hell.” This wrecked me.
I love that I found Literati because it led me to Jesmyn Ward and her club, which led me to this book. Heavy is an accurate title but it's not heavy in the way you might first think...it's heavy in every meaning possible and some you probably didn't even know.
Gorgeous. Devastating. Both a really easy read and a REALLY tough read. Heavy is a masterpiece
It's difficult to review a memoir. No matter how beautifully it is written and no matter how eye-opening the experience, a memoir is so very personal to the author. A mediocre or bad review is almost like saying the author sucks as a person. The closest I can come is to recommend the book to others (check) and to say, is this the best way this story could have been told? Answer: I believe so.
A new favorite. There's nothing I admire more than a writer who strikes the perfect balance of honesty, vulnerability, bluntness, and wisdom in a piece of writing. A true, true must-read.
Woooow. So vulnerable, so brutally honest, so well written. Strongly recommend you get the audio so Kiese can tell you his tale himself. Unflinchingly tough but necessary to hear. Absolutely in my top reads of the year.
