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  • Wait Til I Get Over

  • Format: LP
  • Release Date: 05/05/2023
Wait Til I Get Over

Wait Til I Get Over

  • Format: LP
  • Release Date: 05/05/2023
  • LP 
    Price: USD $31.24

    Product Notes

    Durand Jones's Wait 'Til I Get Over is a memoir and a love letter.

    It is the story of Jones's life, his growth and revelations, the

    wisdom of his hometown and the wisdom he could only gain

    once he left. In it, he writes through Hillaryville's contradictions:

    the pristine beauty and the ragged roads; his teenage desire

    to leave and his adult desire to honor his tangled roots; the

    plantation history and the ups and downs of the Black community

    that made homes of this reparation town. "Hometowns have a

    way of keeping a part of you," says Jones, "and if I'm making

    something young-me would be proud of, Hillaryville is a big part

    of that." Jones finds something transformative in his memories

    there and the life he has led since, ultimately claiming and

    embracing his whole self.

    The result is vulnerable, personal, touching on Jones's

    relationship to church life, to his mother, to his queerness, to

    his worth. "I wish I could tell my younger self 'you don't have to

    stick to the dreams people have for you,'" says Jones, "'you can

    dream bigger. You are more than capable, you are more than

    able. I think about some nerdy punk kid in the rural south who

    needs to hear that now.'" Wait 'Til I Get Over does exactly that.