Way to Go, Smith

By: Bob Smith

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Paperback | 11 April 2018

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In his award-winning first book, Bob Smith offered up a witty dose of nineties reality with his observations as a happily adjusted gay man. Now, after breaking up with his longtime boyfriend, Smith looks back to his painfully normal childhood to see where all the trouble really began. Like every other American kid, Bob's adolescence was marked by alternating moments of blissful ignorance, hazy confusion, and humiliating self-consciousness. And in these pages, Bob evokes his youth with a vividness that will make you shudder and howl with recognition.

In these hysterically humorous pages, Bob Smith introduces readers to his comically unsympathetic grandmother, who makes light of his carsickness: "Bob only throws up because he's near the window and he can"; to his first teacher crush, whose "five-o'clock shadow could plunge a room into darkness"; and to his first brush with fame, when he fainted from his chair during a biology filmstrip ("Way to go, Smith "). Sharp, observant, ingeniously ironic and wholly satisfying, this new Lambda Award-nominated collection is at once bittersweet nostalgic fun and a testament to the unquestionable gifts of a highly original comic writer.

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"Like a conversation with an old friend..."Way to Go, Smith! makes you laugh, makes you think, and makes you understand what it is to be Bob."--CNN..".the chuckles expended on the zany humor are haunted by a wispy ghost of regrets for relationship potentials unrealized."--"Booklist

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Wolf Whistling in the Dark	p. 1
Is He Wearing Hai Karate?	p. 60
Way to Go, Smith!	p. 89
To Grandmother's House We Go	p. 106
My Pen Pal	p. 133
Our Fathers	p. 164
I'm Just a Love Machine	p. 196
War and Piece of Ass	p. 238
Acknowledgments	p. 285
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