Good, God: A Creation Story (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781982172138)

Vendor: Kiese Laymon
Product type: Books
Format: Hardcover
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Good, God: A Creation Story

$29.00

Good, God: A Creation Story

$29.00
Format: Hardcover
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A powerful, benedictive new memoir from a master of the form, Good, God: A Creation Story probes the comic, and often ghoulish, experience of creating children, creating good friendship, creating good art, and creating good Gods while waiting to die in America

When Kiese Laymon's best friend invites him to help her create a child in the age of Trump, Laymon must reckon with how a romanticization of Mississippi, his role as a writer, and his grandmother, have telegraphed the kind of friend, father, and artist he can be. Why doesn't he want to be a father in this nation? Why is he insistent that Mississippi is the only place he would consider helping a child be born? What if his grandmother, his reason for living and making art, dies before a child can be born?

While probing the relationships with three generations of women in his life, Laymon continues his courageous, wide-open approach to memoir with Good, God--an attempt to lay bare the knot of intimacy and brutality that lies at the heart of all confession: whether it be between parent and child, partner and partner, reader and writer, comedy and tragedy, the north and the deep south.

Spanning fifty years, from his childhood to the present, delivered through several powerful episodes that fold into one another--his childhood memories of a mysterious stranger whose sudden appearance undoes his grandmother; a kind Northern white family who comes to stay with his grandmother on the presumption that they know her from his books; the process of trying to create a child with his best friend as he is treated for cancer--Good, God invites us into experiences we cannot shed, where good, God, grandmothers, prayer, and every conception of love itself, must be reconsidered, recast and recreated holy.

Author: Kiese Laymon
ISBN-10: 1982172134
ISBN-13: 9781982172138
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Language: English
Published: 04/06/2027
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.96lbs
Size: 8.38h x 5.50w x 0.83d
By Kiese Laymon
By Kiese Laymon
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Kiese Laymon is a Black southern writer from Jackson, Mississippi. Laymon is the Libbie Shearn Moody Professor of English and Creative Writing at Rice University. Laymon is the author of Long Division, which won the NAACP Image Award for fiction, and the essay collection, How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America, named a notable book of the year by The New York Times. Laymon's bestselling memoir, Heavy: An American Memoir, won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction, the Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose, the Austen Riggs Erikson Prize for Excellence in Mental Health Media, and was named one of the 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years by The New York Times. Laymon is the recipient of 2020-2021 Radcliffe Fellowship at Harvard. He is the founder of The Catherine Coleman Literary Arts and Justice Initiative, a program based out of the Margaret Walker Center at Jackson State University, aimed at aiding young people in Jackson get more comfortable reading, writing, revising, and sharing on their own terms, in their own communities. He is the cohost of Reckon True Stories with Deesha Philyaw. Kiese Laymon was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2022.

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