Breakfast for Dinner

A feel-good book about when everything goes wrong.

Breakfast for Dinner is a memoir-in-essays about family, failure, and the long, stumbling effort of becoming the adult you always needed as a kid.

Across thirteen funny and unflinchingly honest stories, Ryan Staples revisits the strange and humiliating moments that somehow shape a life: the end of childhood friendships, a near-death experience in U.S. Navy boot camp, middle school bullies, sucking at sports, living with a Turkish immigrant he...