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The Color Purple (Hardcover)
Alice Walker; Foreword by Kiese Laymon
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From Kiese Laymon, author of the critically acclaimed memoir Heavy,
comes a "funny, astute, searching" (The Wall Street Journal) debut
novel about Black teenagers that is a satirical exploration of
celebrity, authorship, violence, religion, and coming of age in
post-Katrina Mississippi. Written in a voice that's alternately
humorous, lacerating, and wise, Long Division features two
interwoven stories. In the first, it's 2013: after an on-stage
meltdown during a nationally televised quiz contest,
fourteen-year-old Citoyen "City" Coldson becomes an overnight
YouTube celebrity. The next day, he's sent to stay with his
grandmother in the small coastal community of Melahatchie, where a
young girl named Baize Shephard has recently disappeared. Before
leaving, City is given a strange book without an author called Long
Division. He learns that one of the book's main characters is also
named City Coldson-but Long Division is set in 1985. This
1985-version of City, along with his friend and love interest,
Shalaya Crump, discovers a way to travel into the future, and
steals a laptop and cellphone from an orphaned teenage rapper
called...Baize Shephard. They ultimately take these items with them
all the way back to 1964, to help another time-traveler they meet
to protect his family from the Ku Klux Klan. City's two stories
ultimately converge in the work shed behind his grandmother's
house, where he discovers the key to Baize's disappearance.
Brilliantly "skewering the disingenuous masquerade of institutional
racism" (Publishers Weekly), this dreamlike "smart, funny, and
sharp" (Jesmyn Ward), novel shows the work that young Black
Americans must do, while living under the shadow of a history "that
they only gropingly understand and must try to fill in for
themselves" (The Wall Street Journal).
Contemporary artists and writers reflect on the Great Migration and
the ways that it continues to inform the Black experience in
America The Great Migration (1915-70) saw more than six million
African Americans leave the South for destinations across the
United States. This incredible dispersal of people across the
country transformed nearly every aspect of Black life and culture.
Offering a new perspective on this historical phenomenon, this
incisive volume presents immersive photography of newly
commissioned works of art by Akea, Mark Bradford, Zoe Charlton,
Larry W. Cook, Torkwase Dyson, Theaster Gates Jr., Allison Janae
Hamilton, Leslie Hewitt, Steffani Jemison, Robert Pruitt, Jamea
Richmond-Edwards, and Carrie Mae Weems. The artists investigate
their connections to the Deep South through familial stories of
perseverance, self-determination, and self-reliance and consider
how this history informs their working practices. Essays by Kiese
Laymon, Jessica Lynne, Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts, and Willie Jamaal
Wright explore how the Great Migration continues to reverberate
today in the public and private spheres and examine migration as
both a historical and a political consequence, as well as a
possibility for reclaiming agency. Published in association with
the Baltimore Museum of Art and the Mississippi Museum of Art
Exhibition Schedule: Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson (April
9-September 11, 2022) Baltimore Museum of Art (October 30,
2022-January 29, 2023) Brooklyn Museum (March 3-June 25, 2023)
California African American Museum, Los Angeles (August 5,
2023-March 3, 2024)
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Yrsa Daley-Ward; Foreword by Kiese Laymon
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'Honest, unflinching and unforgettable... one of Britain's best
writers' Stormzy 'You will come away bruised. You will come away
bruised but this will give you poetry.' Raw and stark, the poems in
Yrsa Daley-Ward's breakthrough collection strip down her
reflections on the heart, life, the inner self, coming of age,
faith and loss to their essence. They resonate to the core of
experience. 'Yrsa's work is like holding the truth in your hands. A
glorious living thing' Florence Welch 'yrsa daley-ward's 'bone' is
a symphony of breaking and mending. an expert storyteller. of the
rarest. and purest kind - daley-ward is uncannily attentive and in
tune to the things beneath life. beneath the skin. beneath the
weather of the everyday.' nayyirah waheed. author of salt. and
nejma
'So beautifully written, so insightful, so thoughtful, so honest, so
vulnerable, so intimate ... A gift' JESMYN WARD
'Wow. Just wow' ROXANE GAY
'Unflinchingly honest' RENI EDDO-LODGE
'An act of truth-telling unlike any other I can think of' ALEXANDER CHEE
A TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR
The story of the black male experience in America you've never read
before
Kiese Laymon grew up a hard-headed black son to a complicated and
brilliant black mother in Jackson, Mississippi. From his early
experiences of sexual violence, to his suspension from college, to his
career as a young college professor, Laymon charts his complex
relationship with his mother, grandmother, abuse, anorexia, obesity,
sex, writing and ultimately gambling.
In Heavy, by attempting to name secrets and lies that he and his mother
spent a lifetime avoiding, Laymon asks himself, his mother, his nation
and us to confront the terrifying possibility that few know how to love
responsibly, and even fewer want to live under the weight of actually
becoming free.
A defiant yet vulnerable memoir that Laymon started writing when he was
eleven, Heavy is an insightful exploration of weight, identity, art,
friendship and family.
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