This is a great memoir. Real, gritty, heartbreaking, uplifting. The reader is carried through it all with such wonderful prose. Only a true poet could capture ...

How We Fight for Our Lives is that rare book that will show you what it means to be needful, to be strong, to be gloriously human and fighting for your life.”

Oct 8, 2019 · From award-winning poet Saeed Jones, How We Fight for Our Lives is a stunning coming-of-age memoir written at the crossroads of sex, race, ...

People don't just happen. We sacrifice former versions of ourselves. We sacrifice the people who dared to raise us. The “I” it seems doesn't exist until we are ...

How We Fight for Our Lives is a coming-of-age memoir written by American author Saeed Jones and published by Simon & Schuster in 2019.

Haunted and haunting, How We Fight for Our Lives is a stunning coming-of-age memoir. Jones tells the story of a young, black, gay man from the South as he ...

How We Fight For Our Lives is a powerful memoir by Saeed Jones that explores themes of race, sexuality, and identity. Through vivid and honest storytelling, ...

Oct 14, 2019 · This is a touching, heartfelt memoir that isn't afraid to delve deep into the darkest corners of familial drama and violent, racially charged ...

Saeed's mother passes away from a heart ailment when he is still in his twenties. Wracked by grief, he goes on a trip to Spain. The book ends with Saeed taking ...

'” Haunted and haunting, How We Fight for Our Lives is a stunning coming-of-age memoir about a young, black, gay man from the South as he fights to carve out a ...