{"product_id":"9781501132742","title":"How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom award-winning poet Saeed Jones, \u003ci\u003eHow We Fight for Our Lives\u003c\/i\u003e—winner of the Kirkus Prize and the Stonewall Book Award—is a “moving, bracingly honest memoir” (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e) written at the crossroads of sex, race, and power.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of the best books of the year as selected by \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e; NPR; \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eO, The Oprah Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eHarper’s Bazaar\u003c\/i\u003e;\u003ci\u003e Elle\u003c\/i\u003e;\u003ci\u003e BuzzFeed\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eGoodreads\u003c\/i\u003e; and many more.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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.’”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eHaunted and haunting, \u003ci\u003eHow We Fight for Our Lives \u003c\/i\u003eis a stunning coming-of-age memoir about 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 own hopes, desires, and fears. Through a series of vignettes that chart a course across the American landscape, Jones draws readers into his boyhood and adolescence—into tumultuous relationships with his family, into passing flings with lovers, friends, and strangers. Each piece builds into a larger examination of race and queerness, power and vulnerability, love and grief: a portrait of what we all do \u003ci\u003efor\u003c\/i\u003e one another—and \u003ci\u003eto\u003c\/i\u003e one another—as we fight to become ourselves.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAn award-winning poet, Jones has developed a style that’s as beautiful as it is powerful—a voice that’s by turns a river, a blues, and a nightscape set ablaze. \u003ci\u003eHow We Fight for Our Lives\u003c\/i\u003e is a one-of-a-kind memoir and a book that cements Saeed Jones as an essential writer for our time.","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42370351136829,"sku":"9781501132742","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9781501132742_p0.jpg?v=1771575066","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.com\/products\/9781501132742","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}