Tragedy Plus Time: A Tragi-comic Memoir

Tragedy Plus Time: A Tragi-comic Memoir

â€œInspiring, tragic, and at times heart-rendingly funny.â€ â€”People

Unsentimental, unexpectedly funny, and incredibly honest, Tragedy Plus Time is a love letter to every family that has ever felt messy, complicated, or (even momentarily) magnificent.

Meet the Magnificent Cayton-Hollands, a trio of brilliant, acerbic teenagers from Denver, Colorado, who were going to change the world. Anna, Adam, and Lydia were taught by their father, a civil rights lawyer, and mother, an investigative journalist, to recognize injustice and have their hearts open to the universeâ€”the good, the bad, the heartbreaking (and, inadvertently, the anxiety-inducing and the obsessive-compulsive disorder-fueling).

Adam chose to meet lifeâ€™s tough breaks and cruel realities with stand-up comedy; his older sister, Anna, chose law; while their youngest sister, Lydia, struggled to find her place in the world. Beautiful and whip-smart, Lydia was witty, extremely sensitive, fiercely stubborn, and always somewhat haunted. She and Adam bonded over comedy from a young age, running skits in their basement and obsessing over episodes of The Simpsons.

When Adam sunk into a deep depression in college, it was Lydia who was able to reach him and pull him out. But years later as Adamâ€™s career takes off, Lydiaâ€™s own depression overtakes her, and, though he tries, Adam canâ€™t return the favor. When she takes her own life, the family is devastated, and Adam throws himself into his stand-up, drinking, and rage. He struggles with disturbing memories of Lydiaâ€™s death and turns to EMDR therapy to treat his post-traumatic stress disorder when he realizes thereâ€™s a difference between losing and losing it.

Adam Cayton-Holland is a tremendously talented writer and comedian, uniquely poised to take readers to the edges of comedy and tragedy, brilliance and madness. Tragedy Plus Time is a revelatory, darkly funny, and poignant tribute to a lost sibling that will have you reaching for the phone to call your brother or sister by the last page.

Country	USA
Author	Adam Cayton-Holland
Binding	Hardcover
EAN	9781501170164
ISBN	1501170163
Label	Touchstone
Manufacturer	Touchstone
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	256
PublicationDate	2018-08-21
Publisher	Touchstone
ReleaseDate	2018-08-21
Studio	Touchstone

Tragedy Plus Time: A Tragi-comic Memoir

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