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Daring, wise, entertaining, and tender, this exhilarating collection of seven connected essays by Cheston Knapp tackles Big Questions through relatively unlikely avenues: an study of an area professional wrestling promotion becomes a deep breathing on pain and his marriage with his daddy; a profile on UFO enthusiasts ends up probing his history in the chapel and, more broadly, the nature and limits of trust itself; attending a grown-up skateboarding camp launches him into a virtuosic analysis of nostalgia; and the surprising murder of any neighbor expands into an interrogation of our own culture's prevailing ideas about community and the way we notify the stories of our own lives. A lot more tremendous, perhaps, is the way he manages to find humanity in a wet basement full of frat boys. Taken mutually, the essays amount to a chronicle of a man's journey into adulthood, and his formative encounters eventually tilt at what may be the Biggest Q of them all: what exactly are the hazards of becoming who you are?
