Extremely personal, emotionally gritty, and unabashedly honest, how we fight for our lives is an outstanding memoir that somehow manages a perfect balance between love and violence,. Saeed jones is the author of the memoir how we fight for our lives (simon & schuster), winner of the 2019 kirkus prize for nonfiction and the poetry collection prelude to bruise (coffee house books), winner for the 2015 pen/joyce osterweil award for poetry. Saeed jones is an acclaimed author and poet known for his memoir how we fight for our lives and poetry collection prelude to bruise His work has garnered numerous accolades, including the kirkus prize for nonfiction, stonewall book awards, and lambda literary awards. How we fight for our lives is a moving and intimate portrait of the writer growing up as a young, gay black man and trying to understand the complex realities of his identity We also gain insight to jones’ relationship with his mother, a story that left me in pieces by the end.
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