Bad Kid
A Memoir
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- 9,99 €
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- 9,99 €
Descrizione dell’editore
From comedian, storyteller, and The Moth host David Crabb, comes a music-filled, coming-of-age memoir about growing up gay and Goth in San Antonio, Texas.
In the summer of 1989, three Goth kids crossed a street in San Antonio. They had no idea that a deeply confused fourteen-year-old boy was watching. Their dyed hair, fishnets, and eyeliner were his first evidence of another world—a place he desperately wanted to go. He just had no idea how to get there.
Somehow David Crabb had convinced himself that every guy preferred French-braiding his girlfriend’s hair to making out, and that the funny feelings he got watching Silver Spoons and Growing Pains had nothing to do with Ricky Schroeder or Kirk Cameron. But discovering George Michael’s Faith confirmed for David what every bully already knew: he was gay. Surviving high school, with its gym classes, locker rooms, and naked, glistening senior guys, would require impossible feats of denial.
What saved him was finding a group of outlandish friends who reveled in being outsiders. David found himself enmeshed with misfits: wearing black, cutting class, staying out all night, drinking, tripping, chain-smoking, idolizing The Smiths, Pet Shop Boys, and Joy Division—and learning lessons about life and love along the way.
Richly detailed with 80s pop-culture, and including black and white photos throughout, BAD KID is as laugh-out-loud funny as it is poignant. Crabb’s journey through adolescence captures the essence of every person’s struggle to understand his or her true self.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In this engaging memoir, Moth host and performer Crabb makes it quite clear that for a gay, awkward teenager in the 1980s, there were better places to be than South Texas. As he entered puberty, Crabb was forced to admit to himself that he wanted Marky Mark, not Madonna, and that he had to keep this information from the world. Crabb attempted to survive high school through invisibility, but his secret crush became a best friend, and he was introduced to eyeliner, drugs, and the San Antonio underworld. Soon he was struggling to stay awake in class after yet another LSD all-nighter. When his guidance counselor called him out in front of his father for lying, skipping school, and being gay, Crabb moved to another town where he lived with his mother and eventually found the courage to accept himself. Crabb presents this hormone-fueled roller-coaster ride with humor and sensitivity, and draws moving portraits of the people who provided him with a community. His evocation of postpunk bands, brutal skinheads, and Goth attire will resonate with those who experienced the era, while his sexual anguish and fumblings are all too universal. Crabb's exploration of the intensity, and necessity, of teen friendships especially resonates.
