The Boston Globe’s Ron Charles writes that Kiese Laymon’s HEAVY is “one of the most dynamic memoirs of the year… [it’s] exemplary.” Harper’s writes that Kiese Laymon’s HEAVY is “[a] tender, thorny, remarkable memoir… [Laymon] weaves a rich and elegantly colloquial self-interrogation in the service of a larger interrogation of the country he lives in.” Scribner will publish the book October 16, 2018.