How We Fight For Our Lives
Ranked #15 in 2019, Ranked #37 in Tennessee — see more rankings.
“People don’t just happen,” writes Saeed Jones. “We sacrifice former versions of ourselves. We sacrifice the people who dared to raise us. The ‘I’ it seems doesn’t exist until we are able to say, ‘I am no longer yours.’ ”
Haunted and haunting, Jones’s memoir 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... more
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Rankings by Category
How We Fight For Our Lives is ranked in the following categories:
- #56 in Black Author
- #87 in NPR
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