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03119aam a22003738i 4500 001 7A20ACA6173711EFA068004147ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240521010044 008 240419s2024 nyu 000 0aeng 010 $a 2023052282 020 $a 0593243196 020 $a 9780593243190 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d DLC $d SILO 050 00 $a PN2287.E455 $b A3 2024 082 00 $2 23/eng/20240423 100 1 $a Ellis, Jay, $d 1981- $e author. $9 227979 245 10 $a DID EVERYONE HAVE AN IMAGINARY FRIEND (OR JUST ME)? / $b ADVENTURES IN BOYHOOD $c Jay Ellis. 263 $a 2407 264 1 $a New York : $b One World, $c [2024] 300 $a pages cm 500 $a 2024/07/30 505 0 $a Mikey & me : intro -- Act a fool with it -- The week i was in a gang -- Road trippin' -- Young love -- Who you talkin' to -- Role models -- Peer pressure -- Being Black at an all Black school -- There's no I in team -- Being Black at an all-White school -- The show must go on. 520 $a "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 driveby 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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Ellis, Jay, $d 1981- $9 227979 600 10 $a Ellis, Jay, $d 1981- $x Childhood and youth. 650 0 $a African American actors $v Biography. $9 87220 650 0 $a African American children $x Social conditions. 650 0 $a Imaginary companions. 651 0 $a United States $x History $x History $y 20th century. $9 88262 776 08 $i Online version: 776 08 $a Ellis, Jay, 1981- $t Did everyone have an imaginary friend or just me? $d New York : One World, 2024 $z 9780593243206 $w (DLC) 2023052283 941 $a 1 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20240521010623.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=7A20ACA6173711EFA068004147ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search