Here for it, or, how to save your soul in America : essays /

R. Eric Thomas didn't know he was different until the world told him so. Everywhere he went, whether it was his rich, mostly white, suburban high school, his conservative black church or his Ivy League college in a big city, he found himself on the outside looking in. In essays by turns hysteri...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Thomas, R. Eric (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Ballantine Books, [2020]
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Thomas, R. Eric. Authors, American > Biography. Journalists > United States > Biography. African American gay men > Biography. Christian gay men > United States > Biography. Men > Identity. Self-acceptance. United States > Social conditions > 21st century. African Americans. Homosexuality, Male. Men. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs. HUMOR / Form / Essays. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / LGBT.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: The monster at the end of this book
The audacity
There's never any trouble here in Bubbleland
Molly, urine danger girl
She's got herself a universe
Historically Black
Disorientation
Someone is wrong on the internet
Unsuccessful Black hair
Flames, at the side of my face
Ball so soft
Fate bursting through the wall
Krampromise
Comforters
The preacher's husband
Dinner guests
Eggquity
The past smelled terrible
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Here for It, or How to save your soul in America
Epilogue: the end is (coming) running about fifteen minutes late.