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03032aam a22005058i 4500 001 3543AF1C34DD11E9BB96D33397128E48 003 SILO 005 20190220010028 007 tb 008 181010t20192018meu d 000 0aeng 010 $a 2018046426 020 $a 1432861425 020 $a 9781432861421 035 $a (OCoLC)1074260023 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d ORX $d OCLCF $d JRZ $d IOU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 10 $a PS3612.A959 $b Z46 2019 082 00 $a B $a B $2 23 100 1 $a Laymon, Kiese, $e author. 245 10 $a Heavy : $b an American memoir / $c by Kiese Laymon. 250 $a Large print edition. 264 1 $a Waterville : $b Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, $c 2019. 300 $a 351 pages (large print) ; $c 23 cm 340 $n Large print $2 rda 490 0 $a Thorndike Press large print biographies and memoirs 520 $a In this stylish and complex memoir, Laymon, an English professor at the University of Mississippi and novelist (Long Division), presents bittersweet episodes of being a chubby outsider in 1980s Mississippi. He worships his long-suffering, resourceful grandmother, who loves the land her relatives farmed for generations and has resigned herself to the fact of commonplace bigotry. Laymon laces the memoir with clever, ironic observations about secrets, sexual trauma, self-deception, and pure terror related to his family, race, Mississippi, friends, and a country that refuses to love him and his community. He becomes an educator and acknowledges the inadequacies in his own education, noting that his teachers "weren't being paid right. I knew they were expected to do work they were unprepared to start or finish." He also writes about living among white people, including a family for whom his grandmother did the laundry: "It ain't about making white folk feel what you feel," he quotes his grandmother. "It's about not feeling what they want you to feel." His evolution is remarkable, from a "hard-headed" troubled teen to an intellectually curious youth battling a college suspension for a pilfering a library book to finally journeying to New York to become a much-admired professor and accomplished writer. 600 10 $a Laymon, Kiese. 650 0 $a African American authors $y 21st century $v Biography. 650 0 $a Compulsive gamblers $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Eating disorders $x Patients $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Mother and child $z United States. 650 0 $a Large type books. 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft 830 0 $a Thorndike Press large print biographies and memoirs. 941 $a 6 945 $a lpt 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20240104012011.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20220517010357.0 952 $l GUPF501 $d 20191018011031.0 952 $l KWPE446 $d 20190620010642.0 952 $l GDPF771 $d 20190309010812.0 952 $l HRPE845 $d 20190223021111.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=3543AF1C34DD11E9BB96D33397128E48 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search