![]() ![]() 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. Jones tells the story of 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. ![]() Haunted and haunting, How We Fight for Our Lives is a stunning coming-of-age memoir. ![]() The ‘I’ it seems doesn’t exist until we are able to say, ‘I am no longer yours.’” We sacrifice the people who dared to raise us. “We sacrifice former versions of ourselves. “People don’t just happen,” writes Saeed Jones. ![]()
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