I read Kiese Laymon’s novel Long Division and his nonfiction essays How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others a few years back and I could tell by the early previews and even the cover of this book that it was likely to be very good. And it is. There’s a handful of comparisons on the cover of this book from early reviewers to Richard Wright’s Black Boy, which is also subtitled “American Hunger” and while I do agree there’s some real connections between the two, one of the […]