{"product_id":"how-to-live-free-in-shayla-lawson-9780593472583","title":"How to Live Free in a Dangerous World: A Decolonial Memoir","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"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, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of the National Book Award winner \u003ci\u003eSouth to America\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePoet and journalist Shayla Lawson follows their National Book Critics Circle finalist \u003ci\u003eThis Is Major\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e's Best Memoirs of 2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed a Most Anticipated Book of 2024 by \u003ci\u003eElle\u003c\/i\u003e, Them, Book Riot, LitHub, Stylecaster, and Chicago Review of Books\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In their new book, Shayla Lawson reveals how traveling can itself be a political act, when it can be a dangerous world to be Black, femme, nonbinary, and disabled. With their signature prose, at turns bold, muscular, and luminous, Shayla Lawson travels the world to explore deeper meanings held within love, time, and the self. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Through encounters with a gorgeous gondolier in Venice, an ex-husband in the Netherlands, and a lost love on New Year's Eve in Mexico City, Lawson's travels bring unexpected wisdom about life in and out of love. They learn the strength of friendships and the dangers of beauty during a narrow escape in Egypt. They examine Blackness in post-dictatorship Zimbabwe, then take us on a secretive tour of Black freedom movements in Portugal. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Through a deeply insightful journey, Lawson leads readers from a castle in France to a hula hoop competition in Jamaica to a traditional theater in Tokyo to a Prince concert in Minnesota and, finally, to finding liberation on a beach in Bermuda, exploring each location--and their deepest emotions--to the fullest. In the end, they discover how the trials of marriage, grief, and missed connections can lead to self-transformation and unimagined new freedoms.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Shayla Lawson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0593472586\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780593472583\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Tiny Reparations Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/06\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.94lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.60h x 5.79w x 0.86d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2023 pg. 21\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2024 pg. 20\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/05\/2024","brand":"Shayla Lawson","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44170043425023,"sku":"9780593472583","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9cb6eb95-119b-4506-a032-0a62495334aa.jpg?v=1689656474","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/how-to-live-free-in-shayla-lawson-9780593472583","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}