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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - At fifty-two, Huck Smith has built a life that works. The bills get paid. The dog gets walked. The groceries get bought. And still, one question keeps following him: What does it mean to be someone who leaves The Leaving Gene is a darkly funny, candid memoir-in-essays about the patterns we inherit, the relationships we abandon, and the strange moment in middle age when the life we carefully built starts asking questions of its own.Moving between family, friendship, sex, loneliness, aging, queer life, and the indignities of an ordinary Tuesday, Smith examines his instinct to leave without pretending he has finally conquered it. There is no tidy redemption here-only the uncomfortable recognition that sometimes survival skills outlive the thing they were protecting us from.Funny, profane, tender, and relentlessly self-implicating, The Leaving Gene is about what happens when you stop running long enough to ask whether the life you've learned to survive might finally be one worth staying for.For readers of David Sedaris, Samantha Irby, Melissa Febos, and David Rakoff.…

Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. At fifty-two, Huck Smith has built a life that works. The bills get paid. The dog gets walked. The groceries get bought. And still, one question keeps following him: What does it mean to be someone who leaves?The Leaving Gene is a darkly funny, candid memoir-in-essays about the patterns we inherit, the relationships we abandon, and the strange moment in middle age when the life we carefully built starts asking questions of its own.Moving between family, friendship, sex, loneliness, aging, queer life, and the indignities of an ordinary Tuesday, Smith examines his instinct to leave without pretending he has finally conquered it. There is no tidy redemption here-only the uncomfortable recognition that sometimes survival skills outlive the thing they were protecting us from.Funny, profane, tender, and relentlessly self-implicating, The Leaving Gene is about what happens when you stop running long enough to ask whether the life you've learned to survive might finally be one worth staying for.For readers of David Sedaris, Samantha Irby, Melissa Febos, and David Rakoff. The Leaving Gene is a memoir-in-essays about the instinct to leave homes, people, family stories, and old selves, and the difficult, necessary work of learning how to stay. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

PAP. Etat : New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. At fifty-two, Huck Smith has built a life that works. The bills get paid. The dog gets walked. The groceries get bought. And still, one question keeps following him: What does it mean to be someone who leaves?The Leaving Gene is a darkly funny, candid memoir-in-essays about the patterns we inherit, the relationships we abandon, and the strange moment in middle age when the life we carefully built starts asking questions of its own.Moving between family, friendship, sex, loneliness, aging, queer life, and the indignities of an ordinary Tuesday, Smith examines his instinct to leave without pretending he has finally conquered it. There is no tidy redemption here-only the uncomfortable recognition that sometimes survival skills outlive the thing they were protecting us from.Funny, profane, tender, and relentlessly self-implicating, The Leaving Gene is about what happens when you stop running long enough to ask whether the life you've learned to survive might finally be one worth staying for.For readers of David Sedaris, Samantha Irby, Melissa Febos, and David Rakoff. The Leaving Gene is a memoir-in-essays about the instinct to leave homes, people, family stories, and old selves, and the difficult, necessary work of learning how to stay. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. In The Leaving Gene, Huck Smith turns toward one of the central questions of his life: what does it mean to be someone who leaves?A memoir-in-essays about staying, going, and the cost of both, The Leaving Gene examines leaving as wound, inheritance, coping mechanism, and survival skill. Through essays about family history, grief, chosen family, queer identity, singlehood, friendship, reinvention, and the uneasy architecture of a life rebuilt from scratch, Smith writes from the middle of the mess rather than safely beyond it.These are not essays about healing as a clean, completed thing. They are essays about the patterns we inherit, the damage we repeat, the people we fail, the homes we leave, and the strange courage it takes to stop running long enough to build something that might actually hold.With humor, tenderness, and unflinching self-examination, Smith resists easy redemption. The Leaving Gene does not pretend that survival always looks graceful, or that becoming a better version of yourself means becoming uncomplicated. Instead, it makes room for the contradiction: the ache and the punchline, the wound and the wisdom, the leaving and the longing to stay.For readers drawn to the candor of Augusten Burroughs, the voice-driven intimacy of Samantha Irby, and the emotional clarity of Paul Monette, The Leaving Gene is a deeply human collection about family, accountability, queer life, grief, reinvention, and the cost of finally choosing not to disappear. The Leaving Gene is a memoir-in-essays about the instinct to leave homes, people, family stories, and old selves, and the difficult, necessary work of learning how to stay. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Some of us found ourselves in rooms with sticky floors.Dollar drinks. Music loud enough to feel in your sternum. Strangers who became your people before you even knew their names. A world that existed before the apps, before the algorithms, before you had to optimize yourself for someone else's checklist.We are human first. Gay second. And this is a book about the human underneath.Boys Bars Becoming is a collection of essays about gay men of a certain age - who we were in those rooms, who we became outside of them, and who we are still trying to figure out how to be. It is about the bars that shaped us and the ones that disappeared. About the friendships that held and the ones that quietly went dry. About grief and fathers and mothers and the particular loneliness of a man who knows exactly what he wants and can't quite let himself have it.Funny, honest, and occasionally devastating, Boys Bars Becoming is for anyone who has ever had to strip away an old version of themselves to find out who they actually are.Pull up a stool.The first round is on me.…

Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. Some of us found ourselves in rooms with sticky floors.Dollar drinks. Music loud enough to feel in your sternum. Strangers who became your people before you even knew their names. A world that existed before the apps, before the algorithms, before you had to optimize yourself for someone else's checklist.We are human first. Gay second. And this is a book about the human underneath.Boys Bars Becoming is a collection of essays about gay men of a certain age - who we were in those rooms, who we became outside of them, and who we are still trying to figure out how to be. It is about the bars that shaped us and the ones that disappeared. About the friendships that held and the ones that quietly went dry. About grief and fathers and mothers and the particular loneliness of a man who knows exactly what he wants and can't quite let himself have it.Funny, honest, and occasionally devastating, Boys Bars Becoming is for anyone who has ever had to strip away an old version of themselves to find out who they actually are.Pull up a stool.The first round is on me. Boys Bars Becoming is a memoir-in-essays about identity, chosen family, grief, and what it means to be seen. Honest, funny, and unflinching, it captures a disappearing world-and the men shaped inside it. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Boys Bars Becoming | Huck Smith | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2026 | Quick Draw Press | EAN 9798234056320 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.