Heavy by Kiese Laymon left me with my jaw on the subway floor more times than I can count— it‘s the kind of book I felt I had to mouth the words to in order to keep myself grounded as all of the images in the book piled inside of me. This book masters the art of accumulation; accumulating shared language, accumulating memory, accumulating weight. May each reader learn from the way Laymon self reflects and shares all of that “raw” with the world.