![]() She also cares for Laymon, finds him beautiful, and imagines the two of them as pragmatic, canny politicians: as she puts it, the black Hillary and Bill Clinton. She has another boyfriend, a clean-cut doctor-in-training, and she goads Laymon about his past relationship with Abby, which is still the subject of gossip. Cake never fought back” (123).ĭuring the early part of his freshman year, Laymon gets involved with a sharp, funny woman named Nzola. He was also low on cash again and spent a lot of his limited money on massive binges: “Cakes felt safe, private, and celebratory. On its face it is the memories of a man who began his life as a poor child in Mississippi and how his experiences accumulated to make him the man, the author and the professor he is today. When he and his friends wrote well, their professors accused them of plagiarism. Laymon (Scribner, 2018) is a complexly layered book. There was no room for him to be curious and experimental, or to make mistakes-in short, no room for him to really be a scholar. ![]() Laymon remembers holding himself back, speaking up in class only when he could present himself as an exemplary black student. ![]() Laymon and a small group of black friends form a close-knit group to help each other endure the school’s overwhelming whiteness. ![]()
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