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Walking in My Joy

In These Streets

Audiobook (Includes supplementary content)
1 of 1 copy available
1 of 1 copy available

A new offering from the author of the hugely successful Mother of Black Hollywood.

Walking in My Joy is a collection of electric stories by the one and only, super hilarious Jenifer Lewis. Her commentary on what's happening in the world today, told through her outrageous real-life adventures, will have you laughing out loud, while her insightful messages touch your soul.

A self-described "traveling fool and nature freak," Jenifer takes readers with her all over the world, from Cape Town to Bali; Washington, DC, to the Serengeti; Mongolia to St. Petersburg; and Argentina to Antarctica to demonstrate how she walks in her joy by seeking pleasure in everyday encounters. Every step of the way you'll be doubled over with laughter as she faints at the Obamas' holiday party; awakens to a swollen face and has to go to the hospital during the height of the Covid pandemic; an alien visitation; a successful takedown of a conman; as well as meeting a handsome Maasai warrior and being chased by a Cape buffalo.

An actress, activist, and mental health advocate, Jenifer Lewis imparts ways to love yourself that will allow you to deflect negative energy and keep people who may come to take your joy in check. She stresses the importance of fully living to your greatest ambitions and taking the time to admire the world's natural gifts. She also encourages embracing each other's uniqueness as a way of finding societal healing. Walking in My Joy is a riveting and enthralling journey.

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from June 13, 2022
      Lewis (The Mother of Black Hollywood), star of ABC’s black-ish, presents a no-holds-barred look at her life as an actor and Black woman in America. “You know me,” she writes, “I’m comfortable front and center,” before proving just that via a piquant combination of essays that veer from recollections about fainting at a White House Christmas reception to her whirlwind weekly schedule. In the irreverent “Dicktimized,” recalling a love affair with the manager of her local gym, Lewis drolly muses “there is nothing as good for the ego as a desperate man hitting your line daily, whispering sweet nothings in your ear.” While the humor never wanes, she also digs into more serious topics, such as her tough childhood growing up in poverty-stricken Kinloch, Mo., in the 1960s; her reactions to national tragedies, including the 2015 massacre at the Emanuel AME church in Charleston, S.C.; her anxieties around “the Orange Man’s candidacy” (“This thing is a fast food glutton/ Got his finger on the button,” she writes in a poem titled “This Thing”); and Black history in America, a “relay race,” she writes, “that still in progress.” Taken together, the essays are as dynamic and vibrant as Lewis herself. Fans are lucky to be in the front row for this.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Jenifer Lewis, actress, activist, and unabashed author, narrates her no-nonsense essays with the confidence of a true icon who is embracing her "wisdom years." Brimming with politics, purpose, self-love, and Trump-hate, this raw account reveals her struggles with bipolar disorder, the painful loss of loved ones, and romantic betrayal, juxtaposed with hilarious tales of friendship, adventure, and living life to the fullest. With its heavy-hitting topics, the memoir isn't always overflowing with joy; instead, it is filled with the adversities that gave rise to her self-acceptance and personal growth. Those familiar with Lewis won't be surprised by this born entertainer's overly dramatic performance, but her powerful delivery is filled with so much love that listeners will find themselves happy to be walking alongside her. M.M.W. © AudioFile 2022, Portland, Maine

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