Heavy: An American Memoir Mental Health Esmeralda brilliantly recreates her tremendous

Esmeralda brilliantly recreates her tremendous journey from the idyllic landscape and tumultuous family life of her earliest years

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

her searching meditation on Martin Luther King Jr

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Heavy: An American Memoir Mental Health Esmeralda brilliantly recreates her tremendous*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