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Heavy: An American Memoir Material:Paperback Christine gets right to theIn Heavy, Laymon writes eloquently and honestly about growing up a hard headed black son to a complicated and brilliant black mother in Jackson, Mississippi. From his early experiences of sexual violence, to his suspension from college, to time in New York as a college professor, Laymon charts his complex relationship with his mother, grandmother, anorexia, obesity, sex, writing, and ultimately gambling. Heavy is a gorgeous, guttinggenerous (The New