The source I used in this assignment was from the “National Public Radio” website where writer Martha Ann Toll wrote about Kiese Laymon’s book “Heavy”. The title of this review is called “‘Heavy’ Brilliantly Renders The Struggle to Become Fully Realized”. The genre of this source was a review of Kiese Laymon’s memoir. This source helped me grasp a better understanding on the book I intend to read for this class. The source summarizes most of the struggles Laymon has faced and has put in his book. It talks about growing up with a single mother who was obsessed in making her son highly educated and would beat him throughout his childhood. It also discusses Laymon’s struggle with being overweight at a young age. However most importantly it is about Laymon becoming a man and battling through racism and abuse during his life and using that as fuel to become a better writer. I trusted this sources reliability as it comes from a trusted website in the “NPR’. Also the author makes her own summary and even puts several excerpts from the book and elaborates on them with added knowledge.

Link: https://www.npr.org/2018/10/17/657824190/heavy-brilliantly-renders-the-struggle-to-become-fully-realized

Toll, M. A. (2018, October 17). ‘Heavy’ brilliantly renders the struggle to become fully realized. NPR. Retrieved September 14, 2021, from https://www.npr.org/2018/10/17/657824190/heavy-brilliantly-renders-the-struggle-to-become-fully-realized.