![]() ![]() ![]() This is an important coming-of-age story that's also a collection of tiny but significant joys. ![]() It's sometimes hard to read and harder to put down." - MAUREEN CORRIGAN, NPR'S "FRESH AIR""Extremely personal, emotionally gritty, and unabashedly honest, How We Fight for Our Lives is an outstanding memoir that somehow manages a perfect balance between love and violence, hope and hostility, transformation and resentment.Jones writes with the confidence of a veteran novelist and the flare of an accomplished poet. How We Fight for Our Lives is at once explicitly raunchy, mean, nuanced, loving and melancholy. One could say that Saeed Jones' new memoir, How We Fight for Our Lives, is a classic coming-of-age story.But Jones' voice and sensibility are so distinct that he turns one of the oldest of literary genres inside out and upside down. We wound and save one another, we try our best, we leave too much unsaid.A moving, bracingly honest memoir that reads like fevered poetry."- THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW "A raw and eloquent memoir. PRAISE FOR HOW WE FIGHT FOR OUR LIVES BY SAEED JONES" devastating memoir.Jones is fascinated by power (who has it, how and why we deploy it), but he seems equally interested in tenderness and frailty. "Written from the crossroads of sex, race, and power in America, coming-of-age memoir and a. ![]()
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