Here for it: or, how to save your soul in America : essays
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"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 hysterical and heartfelt, Eric redefines what it means to be an "other" through the lens of his own life experience. He explores the two worlds of his childhood: the barren urban landscape where his parents' house was an anomalous bright spot, and the verdant school they sent him to in white suburbia. He writes about struggling to reconcile his Christian identity with his sexuality, about the exhaustion of code-switching in college, accidentally getting famous on the internet (for the wrong reason), and the surreal experience of covering the 2016 election as well as the seismic change that came thereafter. Ultimately, Eric seeks the answer to the ever more relevant question: Is the future worth it? Why do we bother when everything seems to be getting worse? As the world continues to shift in unpredictable ways, Eric finds the answers to these questions by re-envisioning what "normal" means, and in the powerful alchemy that occurs when you at last place yourself at the center of your own story"--
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African American gay men
African American gay men -- United States -- Biography
Authors, American
Authors, American -- Biography
Biography & Autobiography
Christian gay men
Christian gay men -- United States -- Biography
Essays
Humor (Nonfiction)
Identity
Journalists
Journalists -- United States -- Biography
Men
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Nonfiction
Social conditions
Thomas, R. Eric
United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century
African American gay men -- United States -- Biography
Authors, American
Authors, American -- Biography
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Christian gay men
Christian gay men -- United States -- Biography
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Humor (Nonfiction)
Identity
Journalists
Journalists -- United States -- Biography
Men
Men -- Identity
Nonfiction
Social conditions
Thomas, R. Eric
United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century
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