How to Live Free in a Dangerous World: A Decolonial Memoir by Lawson, Shayla

How to Live Free in a Dangerous World: A Decolonial Memoir

"Phenomenal.... A memoir that opens into the world, with brilliance, courage, and elegant prose.... This is a...
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Author: Shayla Lawson
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Language: English
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How to Live Free in a Dangerous World: A Decolonial Memoir by Lawson, Shayla

How to Live Free in a Dangerous World: A Decolonial Memoir

$58.68

How to Live Free in a Dangerous World: A Decolonial Memoir

$58.68
Author: Shayla Lawson
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
"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.

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.

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.

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.

Author: Shayla Lawson
Publisher: Tiny Reparations Books
Published: 02/06/2024
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780593472583


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 09/01/2023 pg. 21
Kirkus Reviews 11/01/2023

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