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How Are You Going to Save Yourself by Holmes, J. M., author; Holmes, J. M. What's wrong with you? What's wrong with me?; Holmes, J. M. Legend of Lonnie Lion; Holmes, J. M. Be good to me; Holmes, J. M. Toll for the passengers; Holmes, J. M. Kinfolk; Holmes, J. M. Outside Tacoma; Holmes, J. M. Everything is flammable; Holmes, J. M. Dress code; Holmes, J. M. Cookouts is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is How Are You Going to Save Yourself about?
Four young men struggle to liberate themselves from the burden of being black and male in America in an assured debut'as up-to the-minute as a Kendrick Lamar track and as ruefully steeped in eternal truths as a Gogol tale'(Kirkus, starred review). Bound together by shared experience but pulled apart by their changing fortunes, four young friends coming of age in the postindustrial enclave of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, struggle to liberate themselves from the legacies left to them as black men in America. With potent immediacy and bracing candor, this provocative debut follows a decade in the lives of Dub, Rolls, Rye, and Gio as they each grapple with the complexity of their family histories, the newfound power of sex and drugs, and the ferocity of their desires. Gio proves himself an unforgettable narrator, beautifully flawed and unstintingly honest, as he recounts both the friends'conflicts and their triumphs. Whether it's a fraught family cookout, a charged altercation on the block, a raucous night in high-society Manhattan gone wrong, or the troubled efforts of a drug hustler to go clean, JM Holmes brings the thump and the heat of his scenes to life with the kind of ease that make
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Holmes, J. M., author; Holmes, J. M. What's wrong with you? What's wrong with me?; Holmes, J. M. Legend of Lonnie Lion; Holmes, J. M. Be good to me; Holmes, J. M. Toll for the passengers; Holmes, J. M. Kinfolk; Holmes, J. M. Outside Tacoma; Holmes, J. M. Everything is flammable; Holmes, J. M. Dress code; Holmes, J. M. Cookouts
- Publisher
- New York: Little, Brown and Company
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780316514880
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Literary Collections, Short Stories
- Rating
- 3.7 / 5 (59 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
Other editions & translations
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