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title: "How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America Paperback – August 13, 2013"
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# How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America Paperback – August 13, 2013

**Brand:** kiese laymon
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- **What is this?** How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America Paperback – August 13, 2013 by kiese laymon
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## Customer Reviews

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    This white woman needed to read these words
  

*by S***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 20, 2021*

I think I got this book because it was featured on the Today show. I’m always looking for book recommendations. I had no idea that I needed to hear these stories though. I don’t consider myself “the worst of white people” because my mind is open and my heart believes all peoples deserve love, fairness, and justice but because I am white, I have no real concept of the fear and injustice black people live with daily, hourly, in America. We are a racist nation and I’ve never believed that or witnessed that so fully until last year. Maybe I am “the worst of white people” because I didn’t take the time to learn and listen. I loved Kiese’s free flowing, line of thought sentences and use of repetition. It was like reading a poem in many parts. I’m glad this white girl got to see a glimpse of an amazing black writer but more than that, Just a writer with a different life experience from me but experiences that I needed to hear. And now I’m going to buy his fiction book.

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    Just what I needed
  

*by A***Y on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 16, 2014*

I kept thinking even before opening the pages, having already read some of the essays on his blog titled Cold Drank, that it was a book I wanted and needed my not-so-adult younger brother to read- hoping it would serve as surrogate father-like wisdom that I believed the 22-year old who has had a series of screw ups, growing up the only boy in a house of women, needed. He recently announced the pregnancy of his girlfriend who I have never met and his pride at becoming a father. Kiese wrote something in one of these essays that struck me so strongly regarding the presence of men in a young black boys life- do women need and crave the presence of a strong male figure more than a young black boy needs it? The feminist in me screams "No, I'll be damned if I ever say that I'll ever need a man in my life." My mother, aunt, and grandmother did it for me- and I damn sure don't need it, though I thought I could understand why young boys need that presence... Not saying this made me realize that I needed a man in my life, but it made me open my eyes and drop my ego a few notches. I have come to a realization over the last few weeks that at the tender age of 28, I'm both too young and too old to be as unhappy as I have been in my life since graduating from undergrad some 6 years ago where I met and silently praised Kiese. So removed from him, I wondered if I just drank the Kool-Aid that everyone was serving him as opposed of really understanding him. I read half of the book of essays on my two-hour plane ride home from Seattle to San Francisco and fought back tears and realization that maybe I needed more from this book than my brother. We don't often see things from different perspectives, and I'm saying, I understand a little bit more than I did before reading. Thank you!

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    An Author to Watch
  

*by E***P on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 21, 2013*

The title of this book was the fist thing to catch my attention.  After reading the synopsis and some well written reviews, I purchased the book at an incredibly reasonable price.  I did not have high expectations, as I've read many books by unknown writers via Amazon kindle and I find many to be rather lacking in quality.  However, after reading the first 20 pages or so I clearly saw Mr. Laymon's talent.  He is quite eloquent at times.  Often his imagery is excellent; however, there are times when it's a bit convoluted.  I initially thought I was not his target audience (white, upper-middle class, highly educated, etc.).  But I think everyone is his target audience.  His world seems so far removed from the world I grew up in; yet, many of the truths seem universal.  I know people who scoff at the notion that racism is still prominent in the U.S.; Mr. Laymon rips that falsehood open and lays it bare.  He succeeds in showing how he, and those in his life, is not a victim but rather a player in a flawed system.That being said there is something a bit off about the book.  At times, the book has contradictions but he seems to say it is only because he is full of contractions (as we all are).  This message is a bit lost at times.  Additionally, the chapters are at time disjointed and could use a better transition.  For that reason I gave the book four stars.  I'm sure these problems will resolve themselves with experience.  I will be watching for his next book because I am sure he has more to say and an excellent voice with which to say it.  Well done!

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