Monthly LGBTQ+ Book Discussion: How We Fight For Our Lives by Saeed Jones
Join us for a group discussion of How We Fight for Our Lives by Saeed Jones. This stunning coming‑of‑age memoir follows a young Black gay man growing up in the South as he fights to carve out a place for himself within his family, his country, and his own hopes and fears.
Through vivid vignettes spanning boyhood to adulthood, Jones explores race, queerness, power, vulnerability, love, and grief with unflinching honesty and lyrical force.
Wednesday, April 22
6:00 – 8:00 PM
Main Library – 4th Floor Conference Room
Registration is required!
How We Fight for Our Lives is a stunning coming-of-age memoir about 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 readers into his boyhood and adolescence—into tumultuous relationships with his family, 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—and to one another—as we fight to become ourselves.
