tiptoeing around the house as their mother sleeps off her graveyard shift
off-stage these same women were building communities and enacting social justice
Her departure from home and a cheating husband
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