In Bad Catholic, Joe Thomas strips away the secrets of a life defined by an unwanted adoption by a predatory stepfather and a mother who retreated into an alcoholic haze to deny the undeniable. It is the raw account of a boy forced to balance the innocence of childhood and the pressures of being a teenager with the "house of horrors" he returned to every night.
From the grit of late-night bars to the blood-stained kitchen floor of his childhood home in Connecticut, Joe's journey is one of calculated survival, culminating in a one-way Greyhound ride to Florida.
Fiercely honest and unflinching, this memoir marks the shift from a life defined by family secrets to a man defining himself by his own truth. It is a powerful testament to the resilience of the human spirit and the courage it takes to finally stop waiting for a rescue and decide, once and for all, it's time to save myself.
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Joe Thomas is an author, retired flight attendant, and former writer and creator of the Flight Attendant Joe blog. He authored the three books that make up the Flight Attendant Joe Series and "First Class Cocktails with Flight Attendant Joe." In 2020, Joe hosted the conversational podcast Grounded with Joe Thomas. You can watch him on Vice Media in "How To Treat Flight Attendants, According To Flight Attendants." Joe resides outside of Colorado Springs with his husband Matt and their three amazing and loving -- but always hungry for food -- cats, Harvey, Fred, and Nash.