Everything and Nothing at Once av Joel Leon

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<p><b>For readers of Kiese Laymon</b>¿<b>s<i> Heavy</i> and Hanif Abdurraqib¿s </b><i><b>A Little Devil in America,</b></i><b>a beautiful, painful, and soaring tribute to everything that Black men are and can be</b><br><br>Growing up in the Bronx, Jo¿Leon was taught that being soft, being vulnerable, could end your life. Shaped by a singular view of Black masculinity espoused by the media, family and friends, and society, he learned instead to care about the gold around his neck and the number of bills in his wallet. He absorbed the ¿facts¿ that white was always right and that Black men were either threatening or great for comic relief but never worthy of the opening credits. It wasn¿t until years later that Jo¿understood he didn¿t have to be defined by these and other stereotypes.<br><br>Now, in a collection of wide-ranging essays, he takes readers from his upbringing in the Bronx to his life raising two little girls of his own, unraveling those narratives to arrive at a deeper unders

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