a really good memoir | Push Nevahda and the Vicious Circle: scenes from a random life

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	• Push Nevahda and the Vicious Circle: scenes from a random life Jeremy Williams IUniverse, 2008 - 238 pages average customer review:based on 4 reviews view larger image
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a bold and cutthroat critique of humanity! 4 book reviews

This is one man's journey to find freedom, acceptance, and peace of mind through the explorative channels of love, sex, art, and people.

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This book is boldly insightful, brutally honest, and iconoclastic to the core. It forces us to confront our demons, open up our hearts and minds, search the meaning of life, and confront our history if we are to ever really reconcile the past and become free from the ritualistic constraints of life that keep us from ever finding personal happiness. This book is exciting, fresh, as well as indicting and daunting. It possesses a perfect dramatic blend of tragedy and comedy, wit and charm, cynicism and critique. This book is a must read!

- Deana Webster, author of up-coming novella, 'Mama's Baby, Papa's No Doubt!'

Push Nevahda is 39, unfulfilled, spiritually broken, and desperate to find a purpose and meaning in a life filled with absurdity, conformity, and fanaticism. After the death of his mother, he returns to his hometown of Detroit to bury his mother, reconcile his past, and hopefully break free from imminent soul death that marks his future. Through an intricate and complex stream of scenarios, Push strives to find the meaning of life and free himself from his horrendous past.

-Divine Lyricist, Detroit Spoken Word Artist and Poetess

Jeremy Williams' memoir revisits the free-spirited nature and innovative story-telling techniques of Jack Kerouac's beatnik generation; his vicarious social commentary and distant observations are as clever and fresh as Thomas More's Raphael Hythloday, and the context of Push's most prescient moments - Willie's Place - mimics Dorothy Parker's legendary Algonquin Table.

-Kim Rain, Author of `All because of a Man'

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a really good memoir

Somewhere between the Memoir and Novel the book is superb! As a Memoir it is a moving, high-spirited book; and through our conscious participation we begin to understand how culture can bring Push Nevahda's Vicious Circle into full focus. As a Novel its words are simple and straightforward and, sprinkled with witty commentary and unabridged dialogue, Jeremy Williams combines the universal meaning of culture and class, and calls us to a new understanding of friendship and family. Williams understands that the personal is political, that somehow every black life is tied inextricably to the prison of race.

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This book is a very interesting read. It will keep you going; at times may make you feel uncomfortable, but that's the beauty of it. The writer expresses thoughts, words and feelings that most are unwilling to reveil. A must read.

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Spellbinder book!

This book left me upset, agitated, happy; made me smile, laugh, and shake. This is an amazing read and everyone should read it.

Seated at the table are the typical eclectic looking group of educated, bourgeoisie wannabe, brothas and sistas who are arguing, analyzing, and contemplating the organizing of a protest movement against an Arab-owned supermarket across the street that continuously sell bad hamburger meat. Jimmy the bartender tells me that these cats-some of whom are cantankerous college students, wannabe-poets, and "spoken word artists" that came with Gypsy-have been at it all night, always gathering at the same circled table to discuss everything from politics, neighborhood revitalization, socio-cultural criticism, and James Baldwin, to the New Black Panthers, the Nation of Islam, and the failure of black leadership. Jimmy calls us "Push Nevahda and the Vicious Circle." Me, Gypsy, BJ, Carmen and this new bitch I met on Black Planet named Melina. She's a mixed bitch from Rochester or Belleville who thinks that she's better than everybody else, especially other black folks, because she's educated and has white blood in her. The last time we were here I had to remind her fake ass that everybody sitting at the bar with me got degrees, she ain't the only one. Other friends come and go but we are basically what make up the crew.

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