Black Boy Out of Time, Hari Ziyad
Black Boy Out of Time, Hari Ziyad
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Black Boy Out of Time
A Memoir

Author: Hari Ziyad

Narrator: Desean Terry

Unabridged: 9 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/01/2021

Synopsis

An eloquent, restless, and enlightening memoir by one of the most thought-provoking journalists today about growing up Black and queer in America, reuniting with the past, and coming of age their own way.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 readers 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.

About Hari Ziyad

Hari Ziyad is a cultural critic, a screenwriter, and the editor in chief of RaceBaitr. They are a 2021 Lambda Literary Fellow, and their writing has been featured in BuzzFeed, Out, the Guardian, Paste magazine, and the academic journal Critical Ethnic Studies, among other publications. Previously they were the managing editor of the Black Youth Project and a script consultant on the television series David Makes Man. Hari spends their all-too-rare free time trying to get their friends to give the latest generation of R & B starlets a chance and attempting to entertain their always very unbothered pit bull mix, Khione. For more information about the author, visit www.hariziyad.com.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Marieke on March 07, 2021

Let me start with the cover, it‘s simply beautiful. The colors, the butterflies, the flowers, the light, and of course, the Black person (Hari as a child becoming a grown-up?). I can watch it time and again. It’s powerful and tender at the same time; I could buy this book just because of the cover. T......more

Goodreads review by Shanita on November 17, 2020

I fell in love with this book after reading the first three paragraphs. The writing is simply beautiful and the story is completely compelling. Their work is consistently brilliant and this book is no different.......more

Goodreads review by Richard on February 09, 2021

I tried desperately to connect with Hari Ziyad's "Black Boy Out of Time: A Memoir," an Amazon First Read that I consistently respected but could never quite fully embrace. Ziyad grew up as one of nineteen children in a blended family raised by a Hindu Hare Kṛṣṇa mother and a Muslim father. Ziyad tak......more

Goodreads review by Althea on March 25, 2021

This was an absolutely phenomenal nonfiction read that I cannot recommend enough, especially for those who read and loved George M. Johnson's All Boys Aren't Blue. Black Boy Out of Time is a heartfelt glance into the authors life growing up queer and Black in a religious household. Ziyad not only sh......more

Goodreads review by Boys Inside Books on April 30, 2021

I approached this memoir with great anticipation, knowing Hari Ziyad would further illuminate a black, queer life and hopefully offer comfort in a shared identity to my own. I fortunately received not only a relatable narrative journey, but also an honest, critical analysis of personal racial and se......more

Quotes

“Narrator Desean Terry gives an intimate and emotional performance of this beautiful memoir in essays. Author Hari Ziyad explores the complexities of gender, queerness, and Black childhood…. Terry's tone is soft and gentle, reflecting the person Ziyad has become. His voice sometimes catches in sadness or deepens in anger while capturing every rise and fall of Ziyad's flowing prose. Terry makes it easy to forget it's not Ziyad themself narrating this honest story.” —AudioFile Magazine“Racebaitr editor-in-chief Ziyad merges astute sociopolitical analysis with soul-baring honesty in their striking debut memoir…with its candidness and sharp prose that doggedly links the personal to the political, Ziyad’s tale is engrossing and necessary.” —Publishers Weekly“An unflinchingly honest assessment of the ways in which the lives and experiences of Black children are devalued. Recommended for readers interested in anti-racism.” —Library Journal

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