I'm changed." - Jacqueline Woodson, author of Another Brooklyn Every single living half-grown and grownup body needs to read this book. It is everything everyone needs right now-both love song and battle cry, brilliant as fuck and at times, heartbreaking as hell. 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." - Roxane Gay, author of Hunger "This memoir is a rhapsody in the truest sense of the word, fragments of epic poetry woven together so skillfully, so tenderly, so brutally, that you will find yourself aching in the way only masterful writing can make a person ache. "Jones' explosive and poetic memoir traces his coming-of-age as a black, queer, and Southern man in vignettes that heartbreakingly and rigorously explore the beauty of love, the weight of trauma, and the power of resilience." - Entertainment Weekly "Jones' unabashed honesty and gift for self-aware humor will resonate with readers, especially those in search of a story that resembles their own." - Booklist
"he emergence of a major literary voice.A memoir of coming to terms that's written with masterful control of both style and material." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "An unforgettable memoir that pulls you in and doesn't let go until the very last page." - Library Journal (starred review) "Jones is a remarkable, unflinching storyteller, and his book is a rewarding page-turner." - Publishers Weekly (starred review) 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. 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.Īn 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. 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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