How to Live Free in a Dangerous World: A Decolonial Memoir - Hardcover

Shayla Lawson

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0593472586 ISBN 13: 9780593472583

Publisher: Tiny Reparations Books, 2024

Synopsis

With their signature prose, at turns muscular and luminous, Shayla Lawson travels the world to explore deeper meanings within love, time, and the self. Through encounters with a gorgeous gondolier in Venice, an ex-husband in The Netherlands, and a lost love on New Year's Eve in Mexico City, Lawson's travels bring unexpected wisdom about life in and out of love. They learn the strength of friendships, and the dangers of beauty during a near escape in Egypt. They examine Blackness in post dictatorship Zimbabwe, then take us on a secretive tour of Black freedom movements in Portugal. Through a deeply insightful journey, Lawson leads readers from a castle in France, to a hula hoop competition in Jamaica, to a traditional theater in Tokyo, to a Prince concert in Minnesota, and finally to find liberation on a beach in Bermuda, exploring each location - and their deepest emotions - to the fullest. In the end, they discover how trials of marriage, grief, and missed connections, can lead to self transformation and unimagined new freedoms.

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About the Author

Shayla Lawson is the author of This Is Major, which was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award and a LAMBDA Literary Award, as well as two poetry collections. Lawson has written for New York magazine, Salon, ESPN, and Paper, and earned fellowships from Yaddo and MacDowell. They reside in Lexington, Kentucky. They've "lived" everywhere.

Edition details

• Publisher: Tiny Reparations Books
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0593472586
• ISBN 13: 9780593472583
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320