Heavy: An American Memoir African American & Black - Historical / Fantasy - Historical / Magical Realism Imani Perry

Imani Perry

She stretches her hands up high like a plane's wings and whizzes down a hill so fast on her bike with her hands way up

Coretta Scott King Award–winning author Angela Johnson writes a poignant young adult novel of deception

she sees as much grit as glamour

Harlem is burning

Heavy: An American Memoir African American & Black - Historical / Fantasy - Historical / Magical Realism Imani Perry*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