![]() ![]() She also cares for Laymon, finds him beautiful, and imagines the two of them as pragmatic, canny politicians: as she puts it, the black Hillary and Bill Clinton. Reviews aren't verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content. She has another boyfriend, a clean-cut doctor-in-training, and she goads Laymon about his past relationship with Abby, which is still the subject of gossip. Simon and Schuster, Biography & Autobiography - 256 pages. ![]() Cake never fought back” (123).ĭuring the early part of his freshman year, Laymon gets involved with a sharp, funny woman named Nzola. He was also low on cash again and spent a lot of his limited money on massive binges: “Cakes felt safe, private, and celebratory. Heavy is a gorgeous, guttinggenerous (The New York Times) memoir that combines personal stories with piercing intellect to reflect both on the strife of American society and on Laymon’s experiences with abuse. When he and his friends wrote well, their professors accused them of plagiarism. There was no room for him to be curious and experimental, or to make mistakes-in short, no room for him to really be a scholar. Laymon remembers holding himself back, speaking up in class only when he could present himself as an exemplary black student. Laymon and a small group of black friends form a close-knit group to help each other endure the school’s overwhelming whiteness. ![]()
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