How to Live Free in a Dangerous World
by Shayla Lawson
Buy on Amazon“Phenomenal.... A memoir that opens into the world, with brilliance, courage, and elegant prose.... This is a book to read, read again, and remember.”—Imani Perry, New York Times bestselling author of the National Book Award winner South to America Poet and journalist Shayla Lawson follows their National Book Critics Circle finalist This Is Major with these daring and exquisitely crafted essays, where Lawson journeys across the globe, finds beauty in tumultuous times, and powerfully disrupts the constraints of race, gender, and disability.…
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"When you travel, it changes everything you know. This essay collection takes the reader to post-Mugabe Zimbabwe, a refugee asylum in the Netherlands and foraging in the mist in Bermuda. Each chapter has a new location and theme, from privilege to intimacy to liberation, that explore the truths and contradictions that we discover in new places. At times, the author’s stream-of-consciousness writing style can be difficult to follow, but many essays are evocative and thoughtful. This is a memoir to read slowly, one chapter before bedtime, to let it all sink in."
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"Shayla Lawson's astounding "How to Live Free in a Dangerous World.""
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