Everything and Nothing at Once Campaign & Elections and her younger sister flee

and her younger sister flee her father’s explosive temper and seek refuge at her mother’s ancestral home in Memphis

but their promise to be together feels impossible

Fat girls and boys and nonbinary teens are: friends who lift each other up

2024Pages: 384

Featuring a series of writing prompts

Everything and Nothing at Once Campaign & Elections and her younger sister fleeFor Readers of Heavy, Punch Me Up to The Gods, and A Little Devil in America, a beautiful, painful, and soaring tribute to everything that Black men are and can be. Growing up in the Bronx, Jol Leon was taught that being soft, being vulnerable, could end your life. Shaped by a singular view of Black masculinity espoused by the media, by family and friends, and by society, he learned instead to care about the gold around his neck and the number of