Good Damage: Tragedy, Lightly Polished with a Side of Optimism by Toler, Trey
Good Damage: Tragedy, Lightly Polished with a Side of Optimism by Toler, Trey

Good Damage: Tragedy, Lightly Polished with a Side of Optimism

Devastating and funny. Dark and light. Good and damage. A memoir that refuses to separate them.​​Good Damage...
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Author: Trey Toler
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Good Damage: Tragedy, Lightly Polished with a Side of Optimism by Toler, Trey

Good Damage: Tragedy, Lightly Polished with a Side of Optimism

$22.80
Good Damage: Tragedy, Lightly Polished with a Side of Optimism by Toler, Trey

Good Damage: Tragedy, Lightly Polished with a Side of Optimism

$22.80
Author: Trey Toler
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
Devastating and funny. Dark and light. Good and damage. A memoir that refuses to separate them.

​​Good Damage is the debut memoir from Trey Toler about the messy, unscripted "after. " After the illness, the loss, the burnout, and the exhausting performance of recovery.

The story begins with a Southern childhood governed by rules no one explains: sunscreen and flip flops are gay, and umbrellas are for women. Trey comes of age as the boy who could never quite get those rules right, raised in a church where the preacher says homosexual the way you say abomination (slow, careful, like the word itself could spread).

At the heart of the story is his mother-her fierce beauty, her harrowing brain surgery, and her eventual absence. Trey explores the deafening silence that follows when the person who made the world feel safe is gone, and the strange, delayed grief that refuses to arrive-or leave-on schedule.

Instead of reframing the past with empty optimism, he writes from the messy space where many of us actually live - where learned survival habits start to limit our lives long after the threat is gone. The book channels the dark, earned humor of a stand-up comic who has learned that nothing pulls strangers into a room faster than the truth you didn't plan to admit. Good Damage lets loss, identity, and wit occupy the same space because that's how they actually show up in life.

A devastating and funny reckoning, Good Damage makes the case that not everything that breaks you is bad. Sometimes, that's exactly where the good stuff starts to grow.



Author: Trey Toler
Publisher: Ripples Media LLC
Published: 06/02/2026
Pages: 290
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.65d
ISBN: 9781971718248

About the Author
Toler, Trey: - Trey Toler is a former stand-up comedian, one-time caregiver, and partnerships executive who writes about the stuff most people only admit in therapy. His debut book, Good Damage, uses humor and raw honesty to explore grief, identity, and what changes when you finally start paying attention to your own story. He lives in Atlanta with his partner, his stepchildren, and their golden retriever, Ted.
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