I've been on a memoir kick (by which I mean I listened to one and thought "hmm, writers reading their own memoirs makes excellent ear noise. I should get another one") and then went wandering through audible looking for a new book.
I didn't JUST pick this book because Bell's cousin is N. K. Jemisin, but that was a significant part of the decision-making process. Anyway, good choice of relatives.
This book works so well as a performance because it gives Bell the space to showcase the extended storytelling with jokes that defines his work. You hear him performing as he talks about what he does, which is exactly what you want. It feels like a series of podcasts, each chapter a new routine. But it's also serious storytelling about living in this country as a person of color, as a black man, as a dad, as someone trying not just to hold the line, but make things better. They're stories we need to hear and I'm glad he's telling them.