it has been incredible and so humbling and mind-boggling and gratifying and validatin validas what i always suspect did that this idea of a divide is an innately different people occupy in different regions of the country and it is a dangerous one at that for all walks of life and different skin colors and backgrounds come through the lines and say our stories are different and yet they are the same. that might have to do with the subtitle of the book which is a memoir i want you to clap if you feel me on this a memoir of working hard and being broken on the richest country on earth. [applause] and so that yo units in of souns knowing that we have a little bit of a problem in the stories that we tell ourselves or have been telling for centuries about this place but there is an american dream that involves hard work and you get what you work for and ultimately this is a meritocracy with what we've got going on. it turns out maybe not so much. and i think that is what is speaking to people and folks are yearning to have validated as a special niche within that but i wanted to point tha