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02782aim a2200361 i 4500 001 90AFBCAE30FC11EEBC3B3D423BECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230802011922 007 sd fsngnnmmned 008 230208s2023 nyunnnne m n eng d 020 $a 1668629720 020 $a 9781668629727 020 $a 1668629712 020 $a 9781668629710 035 $a (OCoLC)1369118916 040 $a BLACP $b eng $e rda $c BLACP $d JUH $d SILO 100 1 $a Thomas, Joseph Earl, $e narrator. $e narrator. 245 10 $a Sink [CD book] : $b a memoir / $c Joseph Earl Thomas. 250 $a Unabridged. 264 1 $a [New York] : $b Hachette Book Group, $c [2023] 300 $a 5 audio discs (6 1/2 hr.) : $b CD audio, digital ; $c 4 3/4 in. 511 0 $a Read by the author. 520 $a Stranded in a volatile, ever-shifting family, saddled with a mercurial mother mired in crack addiction, and demeaned daily for his perceived weakness, Joseph Earl Thomas was under constant threat. Roaches fell from the ceiling, colonizing bowls of noodles and cereal boxes. Fists and palms pounded down at school and at home, leaving welts that ached long after they disappeared. An inescapable hunger gnawed at his frequently empty stomach, and requests for food were often met with indifference if not open hostility. Deemed too unlike the other boys to ever gain the acceptance he so desperately desired, he began to escape into fantasy and virtual worlds, wells of happiness in a childhood assailed at all sides. In a series of exacting and fierce vignettes, Thomas guides readers through the unceasing cruelty that defined his circumstances, laying bare the depths of his loneliness and illuminating the vital reprieve geek culture offered him. With remarkable tenderness and devastating clarity, he explores how lessons of toxic masculinity were drilled into his body and the way the cycle of violence permeated the very fabric of his environment. Still, he carves out unexpected moments of joy, from summers where he was freed from the injurious structures of his surroundings to the first glimpses of community he caught on his journey to becoming a PokeÌmon champion. This memoir follows Thomas' coming-of-age towards an understanding of what it means not to fit in -- with his immediate peers, or his turbulent family -- and traces his first attempts at communion with other like-minded people, and solidarity, and eventually, salvation. 600 10 $a Thomas, Joseph Earl. 650 0 $a Children of drug addicts. 650 0 $a Drug addicts. 650 0 $a Parenting. 655 7 $a Autobiographies. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Audiobooks. $2 lcgft 941 $a 1 945 $a cdab 952 $l S1PD771 $d 20230802013220.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=90AFBCAE30FC11EEBC3B3D423BECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search