Length5h 17m
About this audiobook
Black Boy Becoming by Essam Zahir is an unfiltered memoir centered on identity, survival, and transformation. Zahir writes directly from inside his wounds rather than from a safe distance, exploring the friction of growing up caught between external expectations and internal truth. Framed around the belief that a crossroads is not where you get lost, but where you decide who you are, the book bypasses polished performance to map the raw, messy middle of rebuilding oneself. It serves as both a deeply personal account of endurance and an open mirror for anyone fighting to reclaim who they are.
Audiobook details
GenreBiography and Memoir
Length5 hrs 17 mins
Narrated byRecorded Track
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateSep 5, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Dedication
2Prologue
3Part One: The Foundation
4Chapter One: Lucky Number 8
5Chapter Two: No Place Like Home
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6Chapter Three: Saving Grace
7Chapter Four: The Father I Never Had
8Chapter Five: Survival Mode
9Chapter Six: Fourteen and Homeless
10Chapter Seven: Becoming the Parent
11Part Two: The Pursuit
12Chapter Eight: Hoop Dreams
13Chapter Nine: Playing on the Big Stage
14Chapter Ten: Reality Check
15Chapter Eleven: The Hourglass
16Chapter Twelve: Corporate America
17Chapter Thirteen: The Reset
18Chapter Fourteen: The Question That Changed Everything
19Chapter Fifteen: Go Hard or Go Home
20Part Three: The Fire
21Chapter Sixteen: The Entertainer
22Chapter Seventeen: The Celebrity Circuit
23Chapter Eighteen: Badboy
24Chapter Nineteen: The Psychology of Desire
25Chapter Twenty: Finding Faith
26Chapter Twenty-One: The Mirage of “Him”
27Chapter Twenty-Two: The Architecture of Evidence
28Chapter Twenty-Three: A House at the Beach
29Part Four: The Becoming
30Chapter Twenty-Four: Devastating Losses
31Chapter Twenty-Five: The Dark and the Light
32Chapter Twenty-Six: Judgment
33Final Reflection
34Epilogue: The Last Letter
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