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Copyright © 2019 by Saeed Jones
“Elegy with Grown Folks’ Music” by Saeed Jones first appeared in Tin House #69
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First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition October 2019
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Jones, Saeed, author.
Title: How we fight for our lives : a memoir / Saeed Jones.
Description: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. | New York : Simon & Schuster, 2019. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019002515 (print) | LCCN 2019007222 (ebook) |
ISBN 9781501132759 (Ebook) | ISBN 9781501132735 |
ISBN 9781501132735(hardcover :alk. paper) | ISBN 9781501132742(paperback:
alk. paper) | ISBN 9781501132759(ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Jones, Saeed. | African American authors—Biography. | Gay
authors—United States—Biography.
Classification: LCC PS3610.O6279 (ebook) | LCC PS3610.O6279 Z46 2019
(print) | DDC 811/.6 [B]—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019002515
ISBN 978-1-5011-3273-5
ISBN 978-1-5011-3275-9 (ebook)