**Provocative and genre-bending essayist and novelist Kiese Laymon sets out to lose 150 pounds in a year, talks with his mother and grandmother about their relationships to "weight" in America --and chronicles what a lifetime of secrets, lies, and deception do to a black body, a black family, and a
Memoirs of an Angry American
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- Book ID
- 125573864
- Publisher
- JSTOR
- Year
- 1979
- Weight
- 911 KB
- Volume
- 7
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0970-0293
- DOI
- 10.2307/3516745
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