Heavy: An American Memoir

Heavy: An American Memoir*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 memoir winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal

sexuality and violence

But her cousin Ronnie is back in town after ghosting the family fifteen years ago

Bright Dead Things examines the dangerous thrill of living in a world you must leave one day and the search to find something that is "disorderly

her early romance with a handsome-but possessive and short-tempered-man

The sisters are so close that they speak their own language

both timeless and desperately urgent

five women miraculously find one another--and

In a series of personal essays

Haunted by the loss of her sister

and educator from Chicago

impressive debut about corruption among South Korea's elite" (The Boston Globe)

holiday-cheer-worthy finish