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How Are You Going to Save Yourself

por J. M. Holmes

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Fiction. African American Fiction. Short Stories. HTML:Four young men struggle to liberate themselves from the burden of being black and male in America in an assured debut "as up-to the-minute as a Kendrick Lamar track and as ruefully steeped in eternal truths as a Gogol tale" (Kirkus, starred review).


Bound together by shared experience but pulled apart by their changing fortunes, four young friends coming of age in the postindustrial enclave of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, struggle to liberate themselves from the legacies left to them as black men in America. With potent immediacy and bracing candor, this provocative debut follows a decade in the lives of Dub, Rolls, Rye, and Gio as they each grapple with the complexity of their family histories, the newfound power of sex and drugs, and the ferocity of their desires.
Gio proves himself an unforgettable narrator, beautifully flawed and unstintingly honest, as he recounts both the friends' conflicts and their triumphs. Whether it's a fraught family cookout, a charged altercation on the block, a raucous night in high-society Manhattan gone wrong, or the troubled efforts of a drug hustler to go clean, JM Holmes brings the thump and the heat of his scenes to life with the kind of ease that makes us not just eavesdroppers but participants.
How Are You Going to Save Yourself illuminates in breathtaking detail an entire world-one that has been underrepresented in American fiction. At times funny, often uncomfortable, occasionally disturbing, these stories fearlessly engage with issues of race, sex, drugs, class, and family. Holmes's blistering and timely new voice, richly infused with the unmistakable rhythms of hip-hop that form the sound track to his characters' lives, delivers an indelible fiction that has never been more vital and necessary.

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As a literary scholar absorbing the works of upcoming writers, Holmes' work is the type of prose that reminds me of David Foster Wallace's "Infinite Jest", and Wallace's work I could never finish. I did finish Holmes' work.The tone of this book happens in waves. There are a few artful lines sandwiched within many sections of dialogue but then the framing of each story wears thin upon the reader.

As a African-American literature student, I wanted to connect with the story layout and the grief of each character. Of all characters presented, I found the most commonality with Gio.

Gio seems sequestered in-between family and friends, while grieving over the lack of connection with those he left behind to save himself. After Gio saves himself, he still has to fight the demons and triggers from a past that has left immovable scars.

I found myself re-reading and revising some portions of text aloud to discern the author's messaging. The rhythm and meter of each prose piece was disjointed. And these structural problems have me wondering what age group this novel targets. Many hip-hop metaphors are scattered in places that seem inappropriate. Sometimes they work to set the scene and push forward culture, other times they make other parts of an otherwise fantastic story, esoteric.

Had the character plots been slightly more nuanced, the story line might have had more power.

I'm interested to know if some readers were confused about how story format should have been... Were we dealing with vignettes or essays?

Hopefully, his next effort is a bit more evocative. I wanted the book to be far better than it was. ( )
  HaroldMillican | Dec 15, 2019 |
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Fiction. African American Fiction. Short Stories. HTML:Four young men struggle to liberate themselves from the burden of being black and male in America in an assured debut "as up-to the-minute as a Kendrick Lamar track and as ruefully steeped in eternal truths as a Gogol tale" (Kirkus, starred review).


Bound together by shared experience but pulled apart by their changing fortunes, four young friends coming of age in the postindustrial enclave of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, struggle to liberate themselves from the legacies left to them as black men in America. With potent immediacy and bracing candor, this provocative debut follows a decade in the lives of Dub, Rolls, Rye, and Gio as they each grapple with the complexity of their family histories, the newfound power of sex and drugs, and the ferocity of their desires.
Gio proves himself an unforgettable narrator, beautifully flawed and unstintingly honest, as he recounts both the friends' conflicts and their triumphs. Whether it's a fraught family cookout, a charged altercation on the block, a raucous night in high-society Manhattan gone wrong, or the troubled efforts of a drug hustler to go clean, JM Holmes brings the thump and the heat of his scenes to life with the kind of ease that makes us not just eavesdroppers but participants.
How Are You Going to Save Yourself illuminates in breathtaking detail an entire world-one that has been underrepresented in American fiction. At times funny, often uncomfortable, occasionally disturbing, these stories fearlessly engage with issues of race, sex, drugs, class, and family. Holmes's blistering and timely new voice, richly infused with the unmistakable rhythms of hip-hop that form the sound track to his characters' lives, delivers an indelible fiction that has never been more vital and necessary.

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