Heavy: An American Memoir
Who is Kiese Laymon from the book, Heavy: An American Memoir?
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Kiese Laymon is a black writer and university instructor. He was born and raised in the American South in the middle-late twentieth century, a circumstance which, as his writing suggests, played a formative role in the development of various aspects of his identity – as a black man, as a writer, and as an American.
Heavy: An American Memoir