Three Yellow Chicks: A Memoir in Ten Stories

Boyet was thirteen when he lost his father - and spent the next twenty years believing that every steady, funny, unshakeable part of himself had come from the man he lost. Three Yellow Chicks is a memoir told in ten stories, each one built around a real person Kalvin Reyes has loved, and a real piece of psychology that helped him survive knowing them: dissociation, delayed gratification, the mechanics of addiction, Stoicism, ambiguous loss, deliberate practice, growth mindset. A sister who never asked to be the strong one. A friend who survived a night with a revolver and never told anyone why. A love that left and came back twenty years later, disguised as something else entirely. Each chapter stands on its own, grounded in research you can look up yourself if it resonates - but by the last page, all ten come together into something the author didn't fully understand about his own family until he wrote it down. Honest, unsentimental, and occasionally very funny, Three Yellow Chicks is for anyone who has ever tried to figure out which parts of themselves they inherited, which parts they built, and which parts they're still deciding what to do with.