You may know W. Kamau Bell from his new critically acclaimed, Emmy-nominated hit show on CNN, *United Shades of America*. Or maybe you’ve read about him in *The* *New York Times* , which called him, “the most promising new talent in political comedy in many years.” Or maybe in *The New Yorker* , fawning over his brand of humor, writing, “Bell’s gimmick is intersectional progressivism: he treats racial, gay, and women’s issues as inseparable.” After all this love and praise, it’s time for the next step: a book. *The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell* will be a humorous, well-informed take on the world today, tackling a wide range of evergreen issues, such as race relations; fatherhood; the state of law enforcement today; comedians and superheroes; right-wing politics; failure; his interracial marriage; his upbringing by very strong-willed, race-conscious, yet ideologically opposite parents; his early days struggling to find his comedic voice, then his later days struggling to find his comedic voice; why he never seemed to fit in with the Black comedy scene . . . or the white comedy scene; how he was a Black nerd way before that became a thing; how it took his wife and an East Bay lesbian to teach him that racism and sexism often walk hand in hand; and much, much more. *From the Hardcover edition.*