One touching section contains the author’s close observation of the intense relationship between childhood friends Troy and Tweety. Though his success as a drug dealer led to a "a house big enough for two families, two Mercedes, a CL 600 and CLK to run errands in, and money busting out of my sweatpants pocket, my socks, the Nike boxes under my bed, my roof safe, and the closet in the stash house," his accumulated trauma blocked any possibility of happiness.
From the moment he decided to hide the abuse he suffered at a summer camp for disadvantaged youth, he bought into a life of lying and repression of emotion. Watkins has parceled out his life in earlier books, particularly The Cook-Up (2016), but here he shares different vignettes, showing off his homegrown storytelling style, often hilarious characterizations, and dead-on dialogue. How a sexually and physically abused Black boy from Baltimore became a violent, wildly successful drug dealer-and then something else entirely.
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