A powerful, benedictive new memoir from a master of the form, Good, God: A Creation Story probes the comic, and often ghoulish, experience of creating children, creating good friendship, creating good art, and creating good Gods while waiting to die in America.When Kiese Laymon’s best friend invites him to help her create a child in the age of Trump, Laymon must reckon with how a romanticization of Mississippi, his role as a writer, and his grandm...

_______________'So beautifully written, so insightful, so thoughtful, so honest, so vulnerable, so intimate ... A gift' - Jesmyn Ward'Wow. Just wow' - Roxane Gay'Unflinchingly honest' - Reni Eddo-Lodge'An act of truth-telling unlike any other I can think of' - Alexander Chee_______________A TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR

A New York Times Notable BookA revised collection with thirteen essays, including six new to this edition and seven from the original edition, by the “star in the American literary firmament, with a voice that is courageous, honest, loving, and singularly beautiful” (NPR).Brilliant and uncompromising, piercing and funny, How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America is essential reading. This newedition of award-winnin...

'I was stunned into stillness' Roxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist'I've had guns pulled on me by four people under Central Mississippi skies – once by a white undercover cop, once by a young brother trying to rob me for the left-overs of a weak work-study check, once by my mother and twice by myself. Not sure how or if I've helped many folks say yes to life, but I've definitely aided in a few folks dying slowly in America, all without the aid of a gun'

Winner of the NAACP Image Award for FictionFrom the author of the critically acclaimed memoir Heavy, comes a “funny, astute, searching” (The Wall Street Journal) debut novel about Black teenagers that is a satirical exploration of celebrity, authorship, violence, religion, and coming of age in post-Katrina Mississippi.Written in a voice that’s alternately humorous, lacerating, and wise, Long Division features two ...

**CORETTA SCOTT KING ILLUSTRATOR HONOR BOOK • A lyrical picture book from the award-winning author of Heavy, about three Black boys who form a deep connection during a transformative summer trip down South to visit family.ONE OF BOOK RIOT’S BEST CHILDREN’S BOOKS OF THE CENTURY (SO FAR)**On the ground of that garden, covered in vegetables and dirt, coated in laughter, I want to say that the Mississippi and New York in our Black boy bodies were indisting...

*Selected as One of the Best Books of the 21st Century by The New York Times**Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal and Finalist for the Kirkus Prize**Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, Publishers Weekly,NPR, Broadly, BuzzFeed, and more*The powerful, provocative, award-winning, and universally lauded memoir by genre-bending essayist and nove...

A powerful, benedictive new memoir from a master of the form, Good, God: A Creation Story probes the comic, and often ghoulish, experience of creating children, creating good friendship, creating good art, and creating good Gods while waiting to die in America.When Kiese Laymon’s best friend invites him to help her create a child in the age of Trump, Laymon must reckon with how a romanticization of Mississippi, his role as a writer, and his grandm...

**A gripping exploration of the joys, hardships, and truths of Black students through intimate, honest dialogues and stunning photography, with a foreword by Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy“A radical, reverential, and restorative document of community.”—Rebecca Bengal, author of Strange Hours: Photography, Memory, and the Lives of Artists**When photographer Adraint Bereal graduated from the University of Texas, he self-published an impressive volume of portr...

**A lyrical audiobook from the award-winning author of Heavy, about three Black boys who form a deep connection during a transformative summer trip down South to visit family.ONE OF BOOK RIOT’S BEST CHILDREN’S BOOKS OF THE CENTURY (SO FAR)**On the ground of that garden, covered in vegetables and dirt, coated in laughter, I want to say that the Mississippi and New York in our Black boy bodies were indistinguishable.Three Black boys spend on...

*Selected as One of the Best Books of the 21st Century by The New York Times**Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal and Finalist for the Kirkus Prize**Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, Publishers Weekly,NPR, Broadly, BuzzFeed, and more*The powerful, provocative, award-winning, and universally lauded memoir by genre-bending essayist and nove...

**The 2022 Lammy Award Winner in Transgender Nonfiction**Exploring the intersections of Blackness, gender, fatness, health, and the violence of policing.To live in a body both fat and Black is to exist at the margins of a society that creates the conditions for anti-fatness as anti-Blackness. Hyper-policed by state and society, passed over for housing and jobs, and derided and misdiagnosed by medical professionals, fat Black people in the United States are s...