| Edition |
Scribner trade paperback edition. |
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Revised edition. |
| Description |
xvi, 159 pages ; 22 cm |
| Summary |
"This new edition of award-winning author Kiese Laymon’s first work of nonfiction looks inward, drawing heavily on the author and his family’s experiences, while simultaneously examining the world-Mississippi, the South, the United States-that has shaped their lives. With subjects that range from an interview with his mother to reflections on Ole Miss football, Outkast, and the labor of Black women, these thirteen insightful essays highlight Laymon’s profound love of language and his artful rendering of experience..."--Publisher's website. |
| Contents |
Author's note #2 -- Mississippi: an awakening, in days -- What I pledge allegiance to -- Da art of storytellin' (A prequel) -- How they do in Oxford -- Hey Mama: an essay in emails -- Echo: Mychal, Darnell, Kiese, Kai, and Marlon -- Daydreaming with D'Andre Brown -- You are the second person -- Hip-hop stole my Southern black boy -- Our kind of ridiculous -- How to slowly kill yourself and others in America -- The worst of white folks -- We will never ever know. |
| Subject |
Laymon, Kiese.
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| Subject(S) |
African American novelists -- Biography.
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African American teachers -- Biography.
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Jackson (Miss.) -- Biography.
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Essays.
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Autobiographies.
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| ISBN |
9781982170820 (paperback) |
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1982170824 (paperback) |
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