Joe Thomas is an author, retired flight attendant, and the former writer and creator of the Flight Attendant Joe blog. He is the author of the three books in the Flight Attendant Joe series, as well as First Class Cocktails with Flight Attendant Joe. Joe cohosted the podcast Confessions on the Fly with LJ and, in 2020, hosted the conversational podcast Grounded with Joe Thomas. He has also appeared on Vice Media in How to Treat Flight Attendants, According to Flight Attendants. He lives just outside Colorado Springs with his husband, Matt, and their three loving—and always hungry—cats: Harvey, Fred, and Nash.
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“How could the very thing that felt like my salvation be the exact thing that signaled my mother’s ruin?”
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.
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.