Heavy: An American Memoir African American & Black - Historical / Fantasy - Historical / Magical Realism and what it means to

and what it means to be a man in 1980s Harlem—a story that has gripped generations of readers

Imani Perry

and kindness

Children will identify with so many of the beautiful

She stretches her hands up high like a plane's wings and whizzes down a hill so fast on her bike with her hands way up

Heavy: An American Memoir African American & Black - Historical / Fantasy - Historical / Magical Realism and what it means to*Selected as One of the Best Books of the 21st Century by The New York Times* *Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, Publishers Weekly, NPR, Broadly, BuzzFeed (Nonfiction), The Undefeated, Library Journal (Biography Memoirs), The Washington Post (Nonfiction), Southern Living (Southern), Entertainment Weekly, and The New York Times Critics* In this powerful, provocative, and universally lauded memoirwinner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal