How Are You Going to Save Yourself

You can read the kind reviews below this short message if you like….

but the reality is How Are You Going to Save Yourself doesn’t represent my values. It was published by Little, Brown, a subsidiary of Hachette in 2018, the same publishers who published Nakba 2.0 Netanyahu’s book in 2000 (I should’ve done my homework then and regret it now. If you were going to order the book, don’t. The second one is forthcoming in 2024 with a different publisher. It’s much more in alignment with who I am and what I stand for. I sincerely appreciate you taking the time to read my work.

Ok, onto the kind words from others…

SHEPHERD BOOK REVIEW

With potent immediacy and bracing candor, this powerful and provocative debut follows a decade in the lives of Dub, Rolls, Rye, and Gio, four young friends coming of age in the postindustrial enclave of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, and struggling to liberate themselves from the legacies left to them as black men in America. As Gio recounts their grappling with the complexity of their family histories, with the newfound power of sex and drugs, and with the occasional violence of their desires, he proves himself an unforgettable narrator--beautifully flawed and unstintingly honest.


JM Holmes's How Are You Going to Save Yourself illuminates in breathtaking detail an entire world--one that has been underrepresented in American fiction. At times funny, often uncomfortable, and sometimes disturbing, these stories fearlessly address issues of race, sex, drugs, class, and family. JM Holmes is an explosive and timely new voice whose fiction has never been more vital and necessary.

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