Nonfiction Book Discussion

Please join us for a discussion of How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir by Saeed Jones on

Tuesday June 15th at 7:30 p.m.

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 place for himself, within his family, within his country, within his own hopes, desires, and fears. Through a series of vignettes that chart a course across the American landscape, Jones draws readers into his boyhood and adolescence, into tumultuous relationships with his family, into passing flings with lovers, friends, and strangers. Each piece builds into a larger examination of race and queerness, power and vulnerability, love and grief: a portrait of what we all do for one another, and to one another as we fight to become ourselves.

An award-winning poet, Jones has developed a style that’s as beautiful as it is powerful a voice that’s by turns a river, a blues, and a nightscape set ablaze. How We Fight for Our Lives is a one-of-a-kind memoir and a book that cements Saeed Jones as an essential writer for our time.

Copies of the book are available on Libby and may also be reserved for pickup at the library.

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