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    Tragedy Plus Time: A Tragi-comic Memoir
    Tragedy Plus Time: A Tragi-comic Memoir
    Tragedy Plus Time: A Tragi-comic Memoir
    Audiobook5 hours

    Tragedy Plus Time: A Tragi-comic Memoir

    Written by Adam Cayton-Holland

    Narrated by Adam Cayton-Holland

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

    Unsentimental, unexpectedly funny, and incredibly honest, Tragedy Plus Time is a love letter to every family that has ever felt messy, complicated, or (even momentarily) magnificent.

    Meet the Magnificent Cayton-Hollands, a trio of brilliant, acerbic teenagers from Denver, Colorado, who were going to change the world. Anna, Adam, and Lydia were taught by their father, a civil rights lawyer, and mother, an investigative journalist, to recognize injustice and have their hearts open to the universe—the good, the bad, the heartbreaking (and, inadvertently, the anxiety-inducing and the obsessive-compulsive disorder-fueling).

    Adam chose to meet life’s tough breaks and cruel realities with stand-up comedy; his older sister, Anna, chose law; while their youngest sister, Lydia, struggled to find her place in the world. Beautiful and whip-smart, Lydia was witty, extremely sensitive, fiercely stubborn, and always somewhat haunted. She and Adam bonded over comedy from a young age, running skits in their basement and obsessing over episodes of The Simpsons.

    When Adam sunk into a deep depression in college, it was Lydia who was able to reach him and pull him out. But years later as Adam’s career takes off, Lydia’s own depression overtakes her, and, though he tries, Adam can’t return the favor. When she takes her own life, the family is devastated, and Adam throws himself into his stand-up, drinking, and rage. He struggles with disturbing memories of Lydia’s death and turns to EMDR therapy to treat his post-traumatic stress disorder when he realizes there’s a difference between losing and losing it.

    Adam Cayton-Holland is a tremendously talented writer and comedian, uniquely poised to take readers to the edges of comedy and tragedy, brilliance and madness. Tragedy Plus Time is a revelatory, darkly funny, and poignant tribute to a lost sibling that will have you reaching for the phone to call your brother or sister by the last page.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateAug 21, 2018
    ISBN9781508257493
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    Adam Cayton-Holland

    Adam Cayton-Holland is a national touring comic who has appeared on Conan, @midnight, The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail, Happy Endings, Deadbeat, Flophouse, Hidden America with Jonah Ray, and was named one of Esquire’s “25 Comics to Watch” and Variety’s “10 Comics to Watch.” Adam co-created, writes, and stars in truTV’s Those Who Can’t along with his fellow members of the comedy troupe, The Grawlix. His albums I Don’t Know If I Happy and Backyards are available on iTunes, and his writing has appeared in Village Voice, Spin, The A.V. Club, and The Atlantic. Adam has been described as “genial” and “with pretty decent teeth.” He is the author of Tragedy Plus Time. 

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    • 4/5
      I finished [Tragedy + Time] on audio, read by the author Adam Cayton-Holland. He is a stand-up comedian, so the delivery was well done. Adam received tons of positive support following a post he did talking about the suicide of his beloved sister. He was approached and asked to expand his thoughts into a book. Needless to say, the result is bitter sweet. It is a tribute to her, therapy for him, a wonderful story of family and love, charming, painful, funny and honest. A bit of a hard read, because of the loss, but good. 3.75