![]() This book cuts a groove into you.”įrom award-winning poet Saeed Jones, How We Fight for Our Lives-winner of the Kirkus Prize and the Stonewall Book Award-is a “moving, bracingly honest memoir” ( The New York Times Book Review) written at the crossroads of sex, race, and power. Through adversity, Saeed Jones still manages to find a path to remain whole and resolute-within the tears, he finds purpose. “An exciting declaration of passion and tenacity, and what it’s like to be young, gifted, black, and queer in an America where every corner is marked with the specter of hatred, ignorance, and tragedy. ![]() ![]() Eugenia Vela, BookPeople, Austin, TX Summer 2020 Reading Group Indie Next List How We Fight for Our Lives is raw, difficult, and truthful, and completely stuffed with love.” We also gain insight to Jones’ relationship with his mother, a story that left me in pieces by the end. How We Fight for Our Lives is a moving and intimate portrait of the writer growing up as a young, gay black man and trying to understand the complex realities of his identity. I did NOT expect, however, to be left immobile in my chair after reading that final paragraph, processing the beauty of his words and those indelible sentences he’s generous enough to share with us. ![]() “Saeed Jones is supremely talented, so I expected his memoir to be great. ![]()
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