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Here for It: Or, How to Save Your Soul in America
by R. Eric Thomas
R. Eric Thomas is a funny person on the internet. Now, he's a funny person you can get to know better through his memoir. This book opens with a hilarious, philosophical essay on Sesame Street and ends with a bizarre, poignant short play where Thomas meets past and former versions of himself over lobster tails at a cruise ship buffet. And between, you get so much more, including the time Thomas accidentally became a famous racist, what it feels like to kiss a gay pastor at pride, and how a funny Facebook post led to a career. I LOVE everything about this book: the humor, the profundity, the timing, the balance... It's exactly what I hope for in a book of personal essays. I laughed, I cried, I gasped, I texted quotes to friends and begged them to read it. As soon as I read the last word, I wanted to flip back to the beginning and start all over again.