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How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir

Saeed Jones

From award-winning poet Saeed Jones, How We Fight for Our Lives—winner of the Kirkus Prize and the Stonewall Book Award—is a “moving, bracingly honest memoir” (The New York Times Book Review) written at the crossroads of sex, race, and power. One of the best books of the year as selected by The New York Times; The Washington Post; NPR; Time; The New Yorker; O, The Oprah Magazine; Harper’s Bazaar; Elle; BuzzFeed; Goodreads; and many more. “People don’t just happen,” writes Saeed Jones. “We sacrifice former versions of ourselves. We sacrifice the people who dared to raise us.

Memoir & AutobiographyMemoir & Autobiography · medium confidenceMemoir & Autobiography81 signalsLlm Classifier: Memoir & Autobiography -> Memoir & AutobiographyOpen Library: Memoir -> Memoir & AutobiographyOpen Library: LGBTQ biography and memoir -> Memoir & AutobiographyMemoir & Personal HistorySports BiographySoldiers, Veterans & Combat Experience

Award History

1 wins · 1 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
Kirkus Prize for NonfictionMajor2019WinnerOfficial source
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  1. 01 Central figures

    • Saeed Jones90%

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  3. 03 Suggested argument

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  4. 04 Reading orientation

    30 / 100 academic

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Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 86%.