Heavy: An American Memoir Mental Health off-stage these same women were

off-stage these same women were building communities and enacting social justice

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

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

The task: steal a magical ring from the wealthiest woman in the District

Her departure from home and a cheating husband

Heavy: An American Memoir Mental Health off-stage these same women were*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