{"product_id":"good-god-kiese-laymon","title":"Good, God \/\/ A Creation Story (Pre-Order, April 6 2027)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eA gutting and powerful new memoir from a master of the form,\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eGood, God\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eprobes Laymon's relationships with three generations of women in his life—his grandmother, his former partner, and his unborn daughter.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhen Kiese Laymon’s former partner invites him to help her create a child in the age of Trump, Laymon must reckon with how a romanticization of good, God, Mississippi, and most importantly, his grandmother, have telegraphed the kind of friend, father, and artist he can be. If Laymon's grandmother is right when she says, \"God been gone,\" how does one actually make anything good in America? Laymon continues his courageous, wide-open approach to memoir with \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eGood, God\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, a literary attempt at heeding his grandmother’s plea to revise the Ten Commandments, while making more intentional the paradoxical intimacy and brutality inherent between readers and writers of contemporary memoir.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSpanning from childhood to the present, set against the last fifty years of specific American hospitality, when \"much of the nation said we were good for nothing, godless people who should be happy to be invited into white American rooms, and white American myths we actually made possible,” Laymon refuses to cede the shape or sound of those rooms to the worst of himself, and the worst of the nation. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eGood, God\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a resonant plea for more good, more god, and most importantly, more holy creative space where we might ruggedly remake what we have collectively made so wrong.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDelivered through several powerful episodes—a memorable childhood meeting with a mysterious stranger who irritates his grandmother, a visit to his grandmother's house by a kind Northern white family who first meets his grandmother in his books, the process of trying to create a child with his good friend as he is treated for cancer—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eGood, God\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e invites us into the intentionally forgotten rooms and spaces of experience where good, God, and American grandmothers are made holy.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKiese Laymon\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Black southern writer from Jackson, Mississippi. Laymon is the Libbie Shearn Moody Professor of English and Creative Writing at Rice University. Laymon is the author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eLong Division\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, which won the NAACP Image Award for fiction, and the essay collection, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eHow to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, named a notable book of the year by \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. Laymon’s bestselling memoir, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eHeavy: An American Memoi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003er, won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction, the Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose, the Austen Riggs Erikson Prize for Excellence in Mental Health Media, and was named one of the 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years by \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. Laymon is the recipient of 2020–2021 Radcliffe Fellowship at Harvard. He is the founder of The Catherine Coleman Literary Arts and Justice Initiative, a program based out of the Margaret Walker Center at Jackson State University, aimed at aiding young people in Jackson get more comfortable reading, writing, revising, and sharing on their own terms, in their own communities. He is the cohost of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eReckon True Stories\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e with Deesha Philyaw. 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