{"product_id":"my-weight-in-water","title":"My Weight in Water","description":"\u003cb\u003eA powerful exploration of race and swimming by a writer who \"see[s] the world whole, allowing daily intimacies against a backdrop of social injustice\" (\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMichael Kleber-Diggs and his twin brother, Martin, grew up in Kansas City, their family part of a prosperous community of Black medical professionals. Their father had never learned to swim, so when he wanted to buy a boat, their mother, a former lifeguard, agreed on the condition that her sons take swimming lessons. Then their father was murdered in an act of random violence, and everyone's lives changed--but for Michael, in the years and moves that followed, swimming remained a constant. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eMy Weight in Water \u003c\/i\u003eis the intimate memoir of a swimmer. It is a story of race and recreation in America--of segregation, desegregation, and justice--told through one family and their lives in the Midwest. It is a reckoning with the concept of self-care and a plea for joy. Most of all, it is a book about what it means to love an activity that leaves you vulnerable--your mostly unclothed body in close proximity to other mostly unclothed bodies, moving through the same water--when you are marked as an outsider by both your race and your size. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTransparently and gloriously written, \u003ci\u003eMy Weight in Water\u003c\/i\u003e is a definitively American work about what it costs one swimmer to enter the pool and why he does it anyway--imagining a future where all people have access to an activity that renders us weightless. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Spiegel \u0026 Grau","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48833645740237,"sku":"9781954118713","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0557\/1529\/9533\/files\/imageloader_20888187-f80a-4ab9-aa43-acaaab091c0a.jpg?v=1790891328","url":"https:\/\/booksatmidnight.com\/products\/my-weight-in-water","provider":"Books At Midnight","version":"1.0","type":"link"}