Heavy: An American Memoir Mental Health tiptoeing around the house as

tiptoeing around the house as their mother sleeps off her graveyard shift

Her departure from home and a cheating husband

is usually off fighting for what matters to him or getting into mischief

her searching meditation on Martin Luther King Jr

becoming the first and only female firefighter in the small town of Tucker

Heavy: An American Memoir Mental Health tiptoeing around the house as*Selected as One of the Best Books of the 21st Century by The New York Times* *Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, Publishers Weekly, NPR, Broadly, BuzzFeed (Nonfiction), The Undefeated, Library Journal (Biography Memoirs), The Washington Post (Nonfiction), Southern Living (Southern), Entertainment Weekly, and The New York Times Critics* In this powerful, provocative, and universally lauded memoir winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal