A book by Robert Urban
Getting Rob’d
An Urban Legend in the Making
Savannah. The Marine Corps. Science. Florida. A life can cover a lot of ground without ever following the directions.
About the book
The legend has a few loose ends.
Getting Rob’d: An Urban Legend in the Making tells a life through episodes: places, people, work, family and the decisions that eventually become your personal history. Savannah, the Marine Corps, science and Florida all belong to that story.
Looking back can make a life appear more organized than it felt while you were living it. The job changes and important relationships line up neatly in a biography. The mistakes usually require a little more room. This is a memoir with room for the detours.
The humor is part of that perspective. There is something revealing about the distance between who a person intended to become and the person who actually arrives. Getting Rob’d follows that distance through personal storytelling, with the author available to take at least some of the blame.
A person behind the author name.
Readers often meet a writer through a few funny observations. A memoir offers a different kind of introduction. The places and experiences behind that voice begin to matter, and a familiar joke can acquire a little more history.
Choose this title if you are curious about the life behind my other books. It brings together the experiences and changes that sit behind a public introduction, where a few professional labels rarely tell the whole story.
For anyone whose life took the scenic route.
You do not need the same background to recognize an unexpected turn. Work, family and a changing sense of who you are provide enough common ground for most of us.
For readers comparing memoirs, useful questions include: Which experiences seem to change the narrator’s perspective? What becomes easier to admit with distance? How does humor affect the way a difficult or embarrassing memory is told? These prompts offer a way to discuss the book without expecting every life to reach the same conclusions.
Before you choose
A few reader questions.
Is Getting Rob’d a memoir?
Yes. It is a personal memoir told through episodes and experiences, with humor running through the telling.
What does the subtitle refer to?
An Urban Legend in the Making plays on Robert Urban’s surname and the act of turning a life into stories.
Which other book should I consider for personal life stories?
My Roller Coaster Life is another Robert Urban title centered on personal experiences, relationships and the changes a life can take.
Meet Rob, the long way.
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