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Title Statement | Did everyone have an imaginary friend (or just me)?: adventures in boyhood / Jay Ellis. |
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Author | Ellis, Jay, 1981- |
Publication | New York: One World,[2024]©2024 |
Edition | First edition. |
Extent of Item | 276 pages |
ISBN | 9780593243190 (hardcover) |
Other Number | pr07474618 |
Contents | Mikey and me : intro --Act a fool wit' it --The week I joined a gang --Road trippin' --Young love --Who you talkin' to? --Role models --Peer pressured --Family business --There's no "I" in team, but there is a "me" --Amongst company --The show must go on. |
Summary | "What to do when you're the perpetual new kid, only child, military brat hustling school-to-school each year and everyone's looking to you for answers? Make some shit up, of course! And a young Jay Ellis does just that, with help from every child's favorite co-conspirator -- their imaginary best friend. Born in the perfect storm of especially ferocious rain and a sugar-fueled imagination, Mikey, his imaginary best friend, steps in to figuratively hold Jay's hand through various youthful shenanigans. A testament to the importance of imagination, trusting oneself, and making space for your creativity, Did Everyone Have an Imaginary Friend or Just Me? is a memoir of a 90s kid who confided in his imaginary sidekick to navigate everything from parallel pop culture universes, like watching Fresh Prince alongside John Hughes movies or listening to Ja Rule and Dave Matthews, to a lifetime of birthday disappointment (being a Christmas season Capricorn will do that to you) and hoop dreams gone bad. Mikey also guides him through greater tragedies, like losing his teenage cousin in a mistaken-target drive-by and the shame and fear of being pulled over by cops almost a dozen times the year he got his driver's license. As imaginary friend morphs into adult consciousness, Ellis charts an unforgettable story of looking within yourself for guidance to some of life's biggest (and smallest) challenges, told in the roast-you-with-love voice of your closest homie"-- |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | African American actors--Biography |
African American children--Social conditions | |
Imaginary companions | |
By Name | Ellis, Jay,1981- |
Ellis, Jay,1981---Childhood and youth | |
By Location | United States--Race relations--History--20th century |
By Genre | Biographies |
Autobiographies | |
Personal narratives |