Life Is A Game Of Chess is a cinematic, incense-laced memoir written by K.M. Lewis — a deeply personal unfolding of truth, transition, trauma, survival, and sacred rebirth. Told with poetic grit, 1970s soul reverence, and raw emotional clarity, this is more than a life story. It is an offering.

Across chapters that read like scenes from a dreamscape — scored by vinyl, steeped in ancestral memory, and framed through the lens of queer Black girlhood — Keisha takes readers through group homes, ballroom floors, gender awakening, loss, and divine becoming. Her voice is smoky and spiritual, tender and tenacious — each word crafted with care, like a prayer you can hold.

This Author’s Heirloom Print Edition is exclusive to Blurb and features a signed dedication page, a clean layout for intentional reading, and the soul of an artist who refused to die in the dark.

This book is for:

The ones who survived what no one saw.

The ones still healing in silence.

The ones who know that truth, when spoken, becomes legacy.