'How We Fight For Our Lives' Is One Life Story That Finds Connection To Others
Extremely personal, emotionally gritty, and unabashedly honest, Saeed Jones' memoir somehow manages a perfect balance between love and violence, hope and hostility, transformation and resentment.
by Gabino Iglesias
Oct 14, 2019
3 minutes
As How We Fight for Our Lives is Saeed Jones' biography, it is a unique narrative of the events that shaped him.
However, it's also a story packed with elements that profoundly connect him to poetry, to every black person that came before him in this country, and to many of us who grew up dreaming of a chance at upward social mobility through education that we couldn't afford. Extremely personal, emotionally gritty, and unabashedly honest, is an outstanding memoir that somehow manages a perfect
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