Way to Go, Smith - by Bob Smith (Paperback)

About the Book

The Lambda Award-winning author of "Openly Bob" offers a hilarious take on his childhood, on how an ordinary kid from an average family could grow up to be so normal, funny, and gay.

Book Synopsis

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.

Review Quotes

"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