Heavy: An American Memoir | Kiese Laymon Kamilah Cole teaches her about the importance

teaches her about the importance of shark conservation

The only problem is

like the souped-up Scorpion

All too often

There’s a class-wide campaign

Heavy: An American Memoir | Kiese Laymon Kamilah Cole teaches her about the importance*Selected as One of the Best Books of the 21st Century by The New York Times* *Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, Publishers Weekly, NPR, Broadly, BuzzFeed (Nonfiction), The Undefeated, Library Journal (Biography Memoirs), The Washington Post (Nonfiction), Southern Living (Southern), Entertainment Weekly, and The New York Times Critics* In this powerful, provocative, and universally lauded memoirwinner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal