Tragedy Plus Time: A Tragi-comic Memoir Audiobook (Free)

“Inspiring, tragic, and sometimes heart-rendingly funny.” —People

Unsentimental, unexpectedly funny, and intensely honest, Tragedy Plus Period is a love letter to every family that has ever experienced messy, complicated, or (actually momentarily) magnificent.

Meet up with the Magnificent Cayton-Hollands, a trio of brilliant, acerbic teenagers from Denver, Colorado, who were going to alter the world. Anna, Adam, and Lydia were trained by their father, a civil privileges lawyer, and mother, an investigative about Tragedy Plus Period: A Tragi-comic Memoir journalist, to identify injustice and have their hearts available to the universe—the nice, the bad, the heartbreaking (and, inadvertently, the anxiety-inducing as well as the obsessive-compulsive disorder-fueling).

Adam thought we would meet lifestyle’s tough breaks and cruel realities with stand-up comedy; his older sister, Anna, chose regulation; while their youngest sister, Lydia, struggled to discover her place in the world. Beautiful and whip-smart, Lydia was witty, incredibly sensitive, fiercely stubborn, and always somewhat haunted. She and Adam bonded over humor from a age, working skits within their basement and obsessing over episodes from the Simpsons.

When Adam sunk into a deep despair in college, it had been Lydia who was simply in a position to reach him and draw him out. But years later on as Adam’s profession will take off, Lydia’s own depressive disorder overtakes her, and, though he attempts, Adam can’t come back the prefer. When she takes her own life, the family members is usually devastated, and Adam throws himself into his stand-up, taking in, and rage. He problems with disturbing thoughts of Lydia’s death and becomes to EMDR therapy to treat his post-traumatic tension disorder when he realizes there’s a notable difference between dropping and losing it.

Adam Cayton-Holland is a tremendously talented writer and comedian, uniquely poised to take readers to the sides of comedy and tragedy, brilliance and madness. Tragedy Plus Period can be a revelatory, darkly funny, and poignant tribute to a dropped sibling that will have you reaching for the telephone to call your sibling or sister from the last page.