"A poetic and raw coming-of-age memoir in essays about blackness, masculinity, and addiction"-- Playful, poignant and wholly original, this coming-of-age memoir about Blackness, masculinity and addiction follows the author, a poet and screenwriter, as he recounts his experiences, revealing a perpetual outsider awkwardly squirming to find his way in. --
Formatted Contents Note: The initiation of Tuan -- We real cool. Colder -- We left school. Bee ; The red caboose ; Parental alienation 101 ; The rent -- We lurk late. Arena ; Sandalwood ; Like this -- We strike straight. The key ; Game theory -- We sing sin . A house is not a home ; Let the church say "amen" -- We thin gin. This gay life ; Look left, look right -- We jazz June. Carnival -- We die soon. Gravel ; Stall -- Tabula rasa..