Kiese Laymon
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Interview: Listen in as Kiese Laymon, whose emotionally compelling and nuanced narrative, Heavy, became the first memoir to win our Audiobook of the Year, talks about what it meant to voice his own story — both to him and the mother to whom he wrote it.
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Heavy
- By: Kiese Laymon
- Narrated by: Kiese Laymon
- Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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A personal narrative that illuminates national failures, Heavy is defiant yet vulnerable, an insightful, often comical exploration of weight, identity, art, friendship, and family....
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Be prepared
- By Amy Eberle on 10-30-18
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Heavy
- Narrated by: Kiese Laymon
- Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 10-16-18
- Language: English
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How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America
- Essays
- By: Kiese Laymon
- Narrated by: Kevin Free
- Length: 3 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America is a collection of Laymon's essays, touching on subjects ranging from family, race, violence, and celebrity....
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I'm Stunned By This Collection
- By Rachel on 10-17-17
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How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America
- Essays
- Narrated by: Kevin Free
- Length: 3 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 01-13-15
- Language: English
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Long Division
- A Novel
- By: Kiese Laymon
- Narrated by: Ruffin Prentiss III, Jaime Lincoln Smith
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Written in a voice that’s alternately humorous, lacerating, and wise, Long Division features two interwoven stories. In the first, it’s 2013: after an on-stage meltdown during a nationally televised quiz contest, fourteen-year-old Citoyen “City” Coldson becomes an overnight YouTube celebrity.
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The good, the bad, the ugly and the hopefulness of the past, present and future.
- By Deborah M. Barrett on 09-18-24
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Long Division
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Ruffin Prentiss III, Jaime Lincoln Smith
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 06-25-24
- Language: English
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How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America
- Essays
- By: Kiese Laymon
- Narrated by: Kiese Laymon
- Length: 4 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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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 Kiese Laymon’s profound love of language and his artful rendering of experience.
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Kiese Laymon is the GOAT.
- By Tia Briggs-Sawyer on 10-20-24
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How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America
- Essays
- Narrated by: Kiese Laymon
- Length: 4 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 10-15-24
- Language: English
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Bone
- By: Yrsa Daley-Ward, Kiese Laymon - foreword
- Narrated by: Yrsa Daley-Ward, Kiese Laymon
- Length: 1 hr and 36 mins
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From the celebrated poet Yrsa Daley-Ward, a poignant collection of poems about the heart, life, and the inner self....
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Visceral,blood hot, thrilling poetry-prose
- By Pam on 12-28-22
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Bone
- Narrated by: Yrsa Daley-Ward, Kiese Laymon
- Length: 1 hr and 36 mins
- Release date: 09-26-17
- Language: English
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Heavy
- An American Memoir
- By: Kiese Laymon
- Narrated by: Kiese Laymon
- Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
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Kiese Laymon grew up a hard-headed black son to a complicated and brilliant black mother in Jackson, Mississippi....
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Beautiful
- By Kindle Customer on 02-14-19
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Heavy
- An American Memoir
- Narrated by: Kiese Laymon
- Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 10-16-18
- Language: English
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bone
- By: Yrsa Daley-Ward, Kiese Laymon
- Narrated by: Kiese Laymon
- Length: 1 hr and 36 mins
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Raw and stark, the poems in Yrsa Daley-Ward's breakthrough collection strip down her reflections on the heart, life, the inner self, coming of age, faith and loss to their essence....
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bone
- Narrated by: Kiese Laymon
- Length: 1 hr and 36 mins
- Release date: 08-23-18
- Language: English
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City Summer, Country Summer
- Length: 10 mins
- Release date: 04-01-25
- Language: English
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