Buck: A Memoir
Cover of Buck: A Memoir by MK Asante
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| Author | MK Asante |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Subject | Literature, Pop Culture, Hip Hop Culture |
| Genre | Memoir, African-American Studies |
| Publisher | Random House/Spiegel & Grau |
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Publication date
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August 20, 2013 |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover) e-Book (Kindle) audio (Audiobook) |
| Pages | 272 pp |
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Buck is a memoir by MK Asante, published by Random House/Spiegel & Grau. Buck tells the story of MK's youth growing up in Philadelphia from the perspective of MK as a teenager. Buck illustrates Asante's struggles with the disintegration of his family and the city's urban decay. Buck is often described as inspirational because it details Asante's discovery of his talent for writing at 16 and his decision to pursue it as a career. The paperback edition of Buck made the Washington Post Bestseller List in 2014 and 2015.
Buck was selected as a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers pick. It was also an LA Times Summer pick and received starred reviews from both Publishers Weekly and Booklist. Buck was nominated for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work. Buck is an Alex Award nominee and a recipient of the In The Margins Book Award.
Maya Angelou wrote:
"Buck is a story of surviving and thriving with passion, compassion, wit, and style... Yes, MK Asante, please continue to live, to accept your liberation, to accept how valuable you are to your country and admit that you are very necessary to us all."
NPR reported:
“In America, we have a tradition of black writers whose autobiographies and memoirs come to define an era. . . . Buck may be this generation’s story.”
The Los Angeles Times wrote:
“Frequently brilliant and always engaging . . . It takes great skill to render the wide variety of characters, male and female, young and old, that populate a memoir like Buck. Asante [is] at his best when he sets out into the city of Philadelphia itself. In fact, that city is the true star of this book. Philly’s skateboarders, its street-corner philosophers and its tattoo artists are all brought vividly to life here. . . . Asante’s memoir will find an eager readership, especially among young people searching in books for the kind of understanding and meaning that eludes them in their real-life relationships. . . . A powerful and captivating book.”
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