Black Boy Out of Time A Memoir - Hari Ziyad

Category: Adults, Autobiography & Biographies, LGBT
Language: English
Keywords: Adult African American Autobiography Biography Biography Memoir LGBT Memoir Nonfiction Queer Race

Written by Hari Ziyad
Read by Desean Terry
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

One of nineteen children in a blended family, Hari Ziyad was raised by a Hindu Hare Kṛṣṇa mother and a Muslim father. Through reframing their own coming-of-age story, Ziyad takes listeners on a powerful journey of growing up queer and Black in Cleveland, Ohio, and of navigating the equally complex path toward finding their true self in New York City. Exploring childhood, gender, race, and the trust that is built, broken, and repaired through generations, Ziyad investigates what it means to live beyond the limited narratives Black children are given and challenges the irreconcilable binaries that restrict them.

Heartwarming and heart-wrenching, radical and reflective, Hari Ziyad’s vital memoir is for the outcast, the unheard, the unborn, and the dead. It offers us a new way to think about survival and the necessary disruption of social norms. It looks back in tenderness as well as justified rage, forces us to address where we are now, and, born out of hope, illuminates the possibilities for the future.

Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
Release date: 03-01-21