Disordered eating,anti-blackness, corpulent-phobia, or addiction all bubble together in Kiese Laymon's novel book,"Heavy: An American Memoir." "As artists, we got to be able to talk about all of it at once because it always happens at once, and " he says. "Food to me is a paradoxical way to accept into all of the mess of what we are."
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