{"product_id":"2940170437634","title":"How We Fight For Our Lives: A Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom award-winning poet Saeed Jones, \u003ci\u003eHow We Fight for Our Lives\u003c\/i\u003e is a stunning coming-of-age memoir written at the crossroads of sex, race, and power.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e¿People don¿t just happen,¿ writes Saeed Jones. ¿We sacrifice former versions of ourselves. We sacrifice the people who dared to raise us. The `I¿ it seems doesn¿t exist until we are able to say, `I am no longer yours.¿\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHaunted and haunting, Jones¿ memoir tells the story of a young, black, gay man from the South as he fights to carve out a place for himself, within his family, within his country, within his own hopes, desires, and fears. Through a series of vignettes that chart a course across the American landscape, Jones draws listeners into his boyhood and adolescence amp;mdash; into tumultuous relationships with his mother and grandmother, into passing flings with lovers, friends and strangers. Each piece builds into a larger examination of race and queerness, power and vulnerability, love and grief: a portrait of what we all do for one another amp;mdash; and to one another amp;mdash; as we fight to become ourselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBlending poetry and prose, Jones has developed a style that is equal parts sensual, beautiful, and powerful amp;mdash; a voice that¿s by turns a river, a blues, and a nightscape set ablaze. \u003ci\u003eHow We Fight for Our Lives\u003c\/i\u003e is a one-of-a-kind memoir and an audiobook that cements Saeed Jones as an essential writer for our time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47117293289712,"sku":"2940170437634","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170437634_p0.jpg?v=1763803519","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170437634","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}