Congratulations, The Best Is Over!: Essays

ISBN: 0593496264

Author: Thomas, R. Eric

Condition: New

NATIONAL BESTSELLER The beloved author of Here for It returns with an all-new collection of heartening, deeply relatable, and laugh-out-loud essays about what happens after happily ever after.Funny, insightful, and hopeful . . . a profound meditation on what it means to come home, and on finding your way again after the chaos of life takes you off your path.-John Paul Brammer, author of Hola Papi!AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEARAfter going viral reading the chaotic political news, having one-too-many awkward social encounters, and coming to terms with his intersecting identities, R. Eric Thomas finally knew who he was and where he was going. He was living his best life.But then everything changed.In this collection of insightful and hilarious essays, Thomas moves back to his perpetually misunderstood hometown of Baltimore (a place he never wanted to return, even to be buried) and behaving completely out of character. They say you cant go home again, but what if you and home have changed beyond recognition? From attending his twenty-year high school reunion and discovering another persons face on his name badge, to splattering an urgent care room with blood la The Shining, to being terrorized by a plague of gay frogs whove overtaken his backyard, Thomas provides the nitty, and sometimes the gritty, details of wrestling with the life he thought hed left behind while trying to establish a new one.With wit, heart, and hope for the future, Congratulations, The Best Is Over! is the not-so-gentle reminder we all need that even when life doesnt go according to plan, we can still find our way back home.