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Velshi Banned Book Club: ‘Heavy: An American Memoir’ with Kiese Laymon

Written in the second person, directly addressing his mother, “Heavy” chronicles author Kiese Laymon’s life from his boyhood in poverty-stricken Jackson, Mississippi to an adulthood spent on prestigious college campuses. The award-winning novel is at once a coming-of-age story and…

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