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Kiese Laymon

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Interview: Listen in as Kiese Laymon, whose emotionally compelling and nuanced narrative, Heavy, became the first memoir to win our Audiobook of the Year, talks about what it meant to voice his own story — both to him and the mother to whom he wrote it.

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  • The audiobook made my mama feel that book the way I wanted it to be felt.

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