Superstar comedian and Hollywood box-office star Kevin Hart turns his
immense talent to the written word by writing some words. Some of those
words include: the, a, for, above, and even even. Put them together
and you have the funniest, most heartfelt, and most inspirational memoir
on survival, success, and the importance of believing in yourself since
Old Yeller.
It begins in North Philadelphia. He was born an accident, unwanted by
his parents. His father was a drug addict who was in and out of jail.
His brother was a crack dealer and petty thief. And his mother was
overwhelmingly strict, beating him with belts, frying pans, and his own
toys.
The odds, in short, were stacked against our young hero, just like the
odds that are stacked against the release of a new book in this era of
social media (where Hart has a following of over 100 million, by the
way).
But Kevin Hart, like Ernest Hemingway, J.K. Rowling, and Chocolate
Droppa before him, was able to defy the odds and turn it around. In his
literary debut, he takes the listener on a journey through what his life
was, what it is today, and how he's overcome each challenge to become
the man he is today.
And that man happens to be the biggest comedian in the world, with tours
that sell out football stadiums and films that have collectively grossed
over $3.5 billion.
He achieved this not just through hard work, determination, and talent:
It was through his unique way of looking at the world. Because just like
a book has chapters, Hart sees life as a collection of chapters that
each person gets to write for himself or herself.
"Not only do you get to choose how you interpret each chapter, but your
interpretation writes the next chapter," he says. "So why not choose the
interpretation that serves your life the best?"
