Northern Lights Books & Gifts

Description

A multiple-week Advocate bestseller, Openly Bob won the Lambda Literary Award and unanimous applause from reviewers across the country. Bob Smith's observations on life as a happily adjusted gay man offered a refreshingly witty dose of nineties reality. Now, after breaking up with his longtime boyfriend, Tom, Bob takes us back to figure out where all the trouble began -- his hilarious, hyper-normal (and hyper-strange) family life.

Here you'll meet Bob's comically unsympathetic grand mother, who treats his car sickness by stuffing him between his two brothers in the backseat: "Bob only throws up because he's near a window and he can." You'll hear about his first teacher crush: "Mr. McGaffin was an odd mix of manly and fey; his five o'clock shadow could plunge a room into darkness and yet his handwriting was better than the samples offered in our textbooks." And you'll witness Bob's first brush with fame: His reaction to health filmstrips made him the only boy in the fourth grade who could faint from the sitting position.

Moving, ironic, and tinged with recognition, Bob's new collection is at once bittersweet nostalgic fun and a testament to the unquestionable gifts of a highly original comic writer.