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"Seinfeld meets Sedaris in the Snapchat Age." - Jill Dearman, The Great Bravura Whether they're trembling before an invasive squirrel, giving the straight dope to an errant call-girl or enduring a #MeToo moment with a handsy waiter on their Roman honeymoon, Kyle and Julius are just the kind of gay married couple who didn't see the 2016 election coming. In this variegated book of vignettes, flash scenes and personal essays, award-winning author Kyle Thomas Smith documents the peculiarities of life in his home, his borough, his chiropractor's office and these times. Step into his Cockloft.

Nearing fifty, author Kyle Thomas Smith looks back on the days when he was a struggling young writer and hapless office temp. At the end of yet another workday when all he wanted was to go back to his little apartment, turn into a cockroach, and expire in a puddle of Raid, Kyle instead went out on the town and met a highly accomplished, globetrotting filmmaker named Fran ois. A romance ensued, but Fran ois flew out the next morning, leaving Kyle with nothing but a napkin on which he'd written his address in Paris.Kyle wondered if this napkin could hold the key to his future, and what would his life be worth if he were to lose the napkin?In this slice-of-life memoir, Kyle Thomas Smith meditates on how tightly we cling to our prospects when the real gold is buried deep inside the life we already have.