Did Everyone Have an Imaginary Friend (or Just Me)?: Adventures in Boyhood

Jay Ellis, star of HBO´s Insecure, tells the story of growing up with an imaginary best friend you will never forget-part Dwayne Wayne from A Different World, part Will Smith from The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air-in this hilarious, vulnerable memoir. "So funny, poignant, and personal. I loved this and you will, too."-Mindy Kaling, author of Why Not Me? and Nothing Like I Imagined What to do when you´re the perpetual new kid, only child, and military brat hustling school to school each year and everyone´s looking to you for answers? Make some shit up, of course! And a young Jay Ellis does just that, with help from his imaginary friend, Mikey. A testament to the importance of invention, trusting oneself, and making space for creativity, Did Everyone Have an Imaginary Friend (or Just Me)? is a memoir of a kid who confided in his imaginary sidekick to navigate parallel pop culture universes (like watching Fresh Prince alongside John Hughes movies or listening to Ja Rule and Dave Matthews) to a lifetime of birthday disappointment (being a Christmas-season Capricorn will do that to you) and hoop dreams gone bad. Mikey also guides Ellis through tragedies, like losing his teenage cousin in a mistaken-target drive-by and the shame and fear of being pulled over by cops almost a dozen times the year he got his driver´s license. As his imaginary friend morphs into adult consciousness, Ellis charts an unforgettable story of looking inward to solve to some of life´s biggest (and smallest) challenges, told in the roast-you-with-love voice of your closest homey.