Upstairs at Murray's: Kiese Laymon - "HEAVY: An American Memoir"
Event address:
Murray's Cafe
73 Broadway
Tivoli, NY 12583
A Fundraiser for Tivoli Free Library
Tickets Required
Tickets $17 - Includes one paperback copy of HEAVY: An American Memoir
In this powerful, provocative, and universally lauded memoir—winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for literature—genre-bending essayist and novelist Kiese Laymon “provocatively meditates on his trauma growing up as a black man, and in turn crafts an essential polemic against American moral rot” (Entertainment Weekly). Named a Best Book of 2018 by the New York Times, Publishers Weekly, NPR, Broadly, Buzzfeed (Nonfiction), The Undefeated, Library Journal (Biography/Memoirs), The Washington Post (Nonfiction), Southern Living (Southern), Entertainment Weekly, and The New York Times Critics.
Event info: https://www.oblongbooks.com/events/upstairs-at-murrays-kiese-laymon