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“Phenomenal.... A memoir that opens into the world, with brilliance, courage, and elegant prose.... This is a book to read, read again, and remember.”—Imani Perry, New York Times bestselling author of the National Book Award winner South to America
Poet and journalist Shayla Lawson follows their National Book Critics Circle finalist This Is Major with these daring and exquisitely crafted essays, where Lawson journeys across the globe, finds beauty in tumultuous times, and powerfully disrupts the constraints of race, gender, and disability.
One of Esquire's Best Memoirs of 2024
Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2024 by Elle, Them, Book Riot, LitHub, Stylecaster, and Chicago Review of Books
In their new book, Shayla Lawson reveals how traveling can itself be a political act, when it can be a dangerous world to be Black, femme, nonbinary, and disabled. With their signature prose, at turns bold, muscular, and luminous, Shayla Lawson travels the world to explore deeper meanings held within love, time, and the self.
Through encounters with a gorgeous gondolier in Venice, an ex-husband in the Netherlands, and a lost love on New Year’s Eve in Mexico City, Lawson’s travels bring unexpected wisdom about life in and out of love. They learn the strength of friendships and the dangers of beauty during a narrow escape in Egypt. They examine Blackness in post-dictatorship Zimbabwe, then take us on a secretive tour of Black freedom movements in Portugal.
Through a deeply insightful journey, Lawson leads listeners from a castle in France to a hula hoop competition in Jamaica to a traditional theater in Tokyo to a Prince concert in Minnesota and, finally, to finding liberation on a beach in Bermuda, exploring each location—and their deepest emotions—to the fullest. In the end, they discover how the trials of marriage, grief, and missed connections can lead to self-transformation and unimagined new freedoms.
Critic reviews
“Lawson is an insightful and unfailingly open-handed writer: eager to share what they’ve learned, sharp but never jaded, honest about their trials, unafraid to be vulnerable. Though their book is structured like a travel memoir, it defies easy categorization. Bursting with humor and life, it will do more than transport readers; for many, it will be transformative.”—Esquire, Best Memoirs of 2024 (So Far)
“Phenomenal. Shayla Lawson’s How to Live Free in a Dangerous World is luminously intimate. It is a memoir that opens into the world, with brilliance, courage, and elegant prose. Lawson is at once marvelously and unapologetically Black, incisive, and vulnerable. They are an unflinching observer of the world who takes us on a journey that is both wide and deep. This is a book to read, read again, and remember.”—Imani Perry, New York Times bestselling author of the National Book Award winner South to America
“Some writers have the gift of talent. Some writers’ talent is a gift to others, namely the reader. Then there are those writers who fall into both categories. Shayla Lawson is one such author. Thought provoking, raw, honest, funny, moving. This book is a treasure. Shayla is a marvel. I’m so grateful for what they and the book have given us.”—Phoebe Robinson, New York Times bestselling author of You Can’t Touch My Hair
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After nearly drowning, eight-year-old Maeve Wilhelm falls into a strange comatose state. As years pass, it becomes clear that Maeve is not physically aging. A wide cast of characters finds themselves pulled toward Maeve, each believing that her mysterious “sleep” holds the answers to their life’s most pressing questions: Kevin Marks, a museum owner obsessed with preservation; Monique Gray, a refugee and performance artist; Lionel Wilhelm, an entomologist who dreamed of being an astrophysicist; and Evangeline Wilhelm, Maeve’s identical twin.
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Excellent read/listen
- By DJ on 09-22-23
By: Rebekah Bergman
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Soldiers Don't Go Mad
- A Story of Brotherhood, Poetry, and Mental Illness During the First World War
- By: Charles Glass
- Narrated by: Edward Glass
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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From the moment war broke out across Europe in 1914, the world entered a new, unparalleled era of modern warfare. Soldiers faced relentless machine gun shelling, incredible artillery power, flame throwers, and gas attacks. Within the first four months of the war, the British Army recorded the nervous collapse of ten percent of its officers; the loss of such manpower to mental illness left the army unable to fill its ranks. Soldiers Don't Go Mad tells for the first time the story of the soldiers and doctors who struggled with the effects of industrial warfare on the human psyche.
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Healing from Hell
- By Josiah Olsson on 02-15-24
By: Charles Glass
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Bright Red Fruit
- By: Safia Elhillo
- Narrated by: Safia Elhillo
- Length: 4 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Bad girl. No matter how hard Samira tries, she can’t shake her reputation. She’s never gotten the benefit of the doubt—not from her mother or the aunties who watch her like a hawk. Samira is determined to have a perfect summer filled with fun parties, exploring DC, and growing as a poet—until a scandalous rumor has her grounded and unable to leave her house. When Samira turns to a poetry forum for solace, she catches the eye of an older, charismatic poet named Horus.
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AMAZING LIKE ALL HER WORK!
- By Arthur P. Dickerson, Jr. on 08-22-24
By: Safia Elhillo
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There You Are
- A Novel
- By: Mathea Morais
- Narrated by: Brandon Johnson
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Octavian Munroe is haunted by the life and death of his older brother in one of the most racially segregated cities in the country. Mina Rose has never quite fit in and wishes she was anything but white. Once lovers, now estranged, they both left St. Louis for fresh starts in the wake of grief and heartbreak. Octavian and Mina travel homeward in the aftermath of Michael Brown's death and the awakening of the Black Lives Matter movement. In search of answers, they seek out the music that once gave their hearts a steady beat and their lives a sense of direction.
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I didn’t want it to end!
- By Sara Blake Purves on 11-16-19
By: Mathea Morais
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His Masterly Pen
- A Biography of Jefferson the Writer
- By: Fred Kaplan
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
- Length: 24 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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As he did for Abraham Lincoln and John Quincy Adams, award-winning biographer Fred Kaplan offers a fresh, illuminating look at the life of Thomas Jefferson and his contributions as a writer.
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Jefferson Condemned by his own Masterly Pen
- By SVAtlanta on 02-15-23
By: Fred Kaplan
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Life Among the Savages
- By: Shirley Jackson
- Narrated by: Lesa Lockford
- Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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In her celebrated fiction, Shirley Jackson explored the darkness lurking beneath the surface of small-town America. But in Life Among the Savages, she takes on the lighter side of small-town life. In this witty and warm memoir of her family's life in rural Vermont, she delightfully exposes a domestic side in cheerful contrast to her quietly terrifying fiction. With a novelist's gift for character, an unfailing maternal instinct, and her signature humor, Jackson turns everyday family experiences into brilliant adventures.
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Stories From A Quirky Family
- By Sara on 01-23-16
By: Shirley Jackson
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The Museum of Human History
- By: Rebekah Bergman
- Narrated by: Gilli Messer, Mark Bramhall
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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After nearly drowning, eight-year-old Maeve Wilhelm falls into a strange comatose state. As years pass, it becomes clear that Maeve is not physically aging. A wide cast of characters finds themselves pulled toward Maeve, each believing that her mysterious “sleep” holds the answers to their life’s most pressing questions: Kevin Marks, a museum owner obsessed with preservation; Monique Gray, a refugee and performance artist; Lionel Wilhelm, an entomologist who dreamed of being an astrophysicist; and Evangeline Wilhelm, Maeve’s identical twin.
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Excellent read/listen
- By DJ on 09-22-23
By: Rebekah Bergman
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Soldiers Don't Go Mad
- A Story of Brotherhood, Poetry, and Mental Illness During the First World War
- By: Charles Glass
- Narrated by: Edward Glass
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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From the moment war broke out across Europe in 1914, the world entered a new, unparalleled era of modern warfare. Soldiers faced relentless machine gun shelling, incredible artillery power, flame throwers, and gas attacks. Within the first four months of the war, the British Army recorded the nervous collapse of ten percent of its officers; the loss of such manpower to mental illness left the army unable to fill its ranks. Soldiers Don't Go Mad tells for the first time the story of the soldiers and doctors who struggled with the effects of industrial warfare on the human psyche.
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Healing from Hell
- By Josiah Olsson on 02-15-24
By: Charles Glass
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Race and Reckoning
- From Founding Fathers to Today’s Disruptors
- By: Ellis Cose
- Narrated by: Korey Jackson
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Spanning from the nation’s earliest years through the New Deal to the Covid pandemic, a groundbreaking work that interrogates how pivotal decisions have established and continued discriminatory practices in the United States, even as the rise of disinformation and other modern advertising techniques have plunged democracy into an ever-deepening crisis.
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MAGA types will hate it
- By Donna Millar on 08-09-22
By: Ellis Cose
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Every Shot Counts
- A Memoir of Resilience
- By: Carlos Boozer, Loretta Hunt
- Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Most know Carlos Boozer as the beloved power forward whose dazzling basketball career spanned two decades. But few know the dramatic, poignant and powerful story behind his meteoric rise. Now, for the first time he's ready to open up about a traumatic incident from his childhood that forever altered the trajectory of his life and shaped him into the man he is today.
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Wonderful story!
- By Winterbookgirl on 10-15-23
By: Carlos Boozer, and others
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Disasterology
- Dispatches from the Frontlines of the Climate Crisis
- By: Samantha Montano
- Narrated by: Eileen Stevens
- Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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With temperatures rising and the risk of disasters growing, our world is increasingly vulnerable. Most people see disasters as freak, natural events that are unpredictable and unpreventable. But that simply isn’t the case - disasters are avoidable, but when they do strike, there are strategic ways to manage the fallout.
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This should have been a better book
- By Soudant on 09-09-24
By: Samantha Montano
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He Said, She Said
- Lessons, Stories, and Mistakes from My Transgender Journey
- By: Gigi Gorgeous
- Narrated by: Gigi Gorgeous
- Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins
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Today, Gigi Gorgeous is beloved for her critically acclaimed documentary, her outrageous sense of humor, her no-holds-barred honesty, and her glam Hollywood lifestyle. Ten years ago, she was a gawky Canadian teen named Gregory. In He Said, She Said, Gigi brings us on her personal journey from Gregory to Gigi, going deeper than ever before and exposing her vulnerability behind each struggle and triumph, with her signature humor at every moment.
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Humanity is done for.
- By Kiley Monaghan on 08-19-19
By: Gigi Gorgeous
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The Wreck
- A Daughter's Memoir of Becoming a Mother
- By: Cassandra Jackson
- Narrated by: Karen Murray
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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There is a secret that young Cassandra Jackson doesn’t know, and it’s evident in the way her father cries her name out in his sleep. Through awkward encounters with family, she comes to realize that she is named after her father's niece, and looks eerily like the child’s mother, both of whom were killed in a car wreck along with her father's beloved mother, and—as she soon discovers—his first wife. Cassandra learns to keep silent about the wreck, but soon learns there is no way to outpace the claw-like grip of her family’s past trauma.
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Compelling and thought provoking
- By EBH3 on 07-02-23
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Black Is the Body
- Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine
- By: Emily Bernard
- Narrated by: Emily Bernard
- Length: 5 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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In these 12 deeply personal, connected essays, Bernard details the experience of growing up Black in the South with a family name inherited from a White man, surviving a random stabbing at a New Haven coffee shop, marrying a White man from the North and bringing him home to her family, adopting two children from Ethiopia, and living and teaching in a primarily White New England college town. Each of these essays sets out to discover a new way of talking about race and of telling the truth as the author has lived it.
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Beautifully written
- By caradaya on 08-10-19
By: Emily Bernard
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Think Black
- A Memoir
- By: Clyde W. Ford
- Narrated by: Leon Nixon
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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In this thought-provoking and heartbreaking memoir, an award-winning writer tells the story of his father, John Stanley Ford, the first Black software engineer at IBM, revealing how racism insidiously affected his father’s view of himself and their relationship.
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A Surprising Memoir
- By Bee on 06-06-22
By: Clyde W. Ford
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Pretty
- A Memoir
- By: KB Brookins
- Narrated by: KB Brookins
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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By a prize-winning young Black trans writer of outsized talent, a fierce and disciplined memoir about queerness, masculinity, and race, Pretty is as much a powerful and tender love letter as it is a call for change.
By: KB Brookins
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The Society for Soulless Girls
- By: Laura Steven
- Narrated by: Marisa Calin, Ell Potter
- Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Ten years ago, four students lost their lives in the infamous unsolved North Tower murders at the elite Carvell Academy of the Arts, forcing the school to close its doors. Now Carvell is reopening, and fearless freshman Lottie Fitzwilliam is determined to find out what really happened. But when her beautiful but standoffish roommate, Alice Wolfe, stumbles upon a sinister soul-splitting ritual in a book hidden in Carvell’s library, the North Tower claims another victim. Is there a killer among them . . . or worse, within them?
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Good story overall, just disturbing at times
- By Kaitie on 11-14-23
By: Laura Steven
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The Fatal Alliance
- A Century of War on Film
- By: David Thomson
- Narrated by: David Thomson
- Length: 19 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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In The Fatal Alliance the acclaimed film critic David Thomson offers us one of his most provocative books yet—a rich, arresting, and troubling study of that most beloved genre: the war movie. It is not a standard history or survey of war films, although Thomson turns his typically piercing eye to many favorites—from All Quiet on the Western Front to The Bridge on the River Kwai to Saving Private Ryan.
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I enjoy David Thomson's books
- By Boxing Fan on 08-05-24
By: David Thomson
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Eye of the Beholder
- The Almost Perfect Murder of Anchorwoman Diane Newton King
- By: Lowell Cauffiel
- Narrated by: Chris Abernathy
- Length: 17 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Battle Creek, Michigan, is famous as the birthplace of breakfast cereal, and the nearby suburb of Marshall is as wholesome as shredded wheat. Well-known for its colorful Victorian mansions, this stately slice of 19th-century Americana became infamous on a frigid night in February of 1991. Newscaster Diane Newton King was stepping out of her car, her children strapped into the backseat, when a sniper's bullet cut her down.
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Thoroughly Researched Book but UNNECESSARILY WORDY
- By Mary Burnight on 01-07-22
By: Lowell Cauffiel
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The Revolutionary Paul Revere
- By: Joel J. Miller
- Narrated by: John Behrens
- Length: 5 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Always smack dab in the thick of things, he was an ordinary citizen living in extraordinarily turbulent times. Revere played key roles in colonial tax fights and riots, the infamous Boston Massacre, the Tea Party, the Battle of Lexington and Concord, and even the ratification of the U.S. Constitution. In this fast-paced, dramatic account, Paul Revere’s life pulses with energy as author Joel J. Miller explores his family and church life along with his revolutionary contribution as a spy, entrepreneur, express rider, freemason, and commercial visionary.
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Great
- By Grace on 03-11-24
By: Joel J. Miller
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- Matthew Bowles
- 03-11-24
An Extraordinary Travel Memoir
This is a truly extraordinary travel memoir that I've been recommending all my friends read immediately. Written with exquisite prose, it will grab you on page 1, draw you into its world, and take you on a incredible journey that will leave you thinking about the book for quite a while afterwards. Having traveled to 50+ countries, Shayla's vivid travel stories of experiencing the world through the lens of being Black, Femme, Nonbinary, and Disabled leads to uniquely profound insights on race, femininity, pronoun usage, privilege, solidarity, decolonizing ourselves, seeking liberation in the world, and the emotional inner journey towards self love. Highly recommended!
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