Goodbye, Again: Essays, Reflections, and Illustrations

Written by Jonny Sun

Narrated by Jonny Sun

The wonderfully original author of Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too gives us a collection of touching and hilarious personal essays, stories, poems—covering topics such as mental health, happiness, and what it means to belong.

Jonny Sun is back with a collection of essays and other writings in his unique, funny, and heartfelt style. The pieces range from long meditations on topics like loneliness and being an outsider, to short humor pieces, conversations, and memorable one-liners.

Jonny's honest writings about his struggles with feeling productive, as well as his difficulties with anxiety and depression will connect deeply with his fans as well as anyone attempting to create in our chaotic world.    

It also features a recipe for scrambled eggs that might make you cry.

• Language: English
• Publisher: HarperAudio
• Release date: Apr 20, 2021
• ISBN: 9780062931412

Jonny Sun

Jonny Sun is the best-selling author and illustrator of everyone’s a aliebn when ur a aliebn too and the illustrator of Gmorning, Gnight! by Lin-Manuel Miranda. He was a writer for the Emmy-nominated sixth season of the Netflix Original Series BoJack Horseman, and is currently writing a movie, a new book, and multiple other projects. As a doctoral candidate at MIT and a creative researcher at the Harvard metaLAB, he studies social media, virtual place, and online community. He has a master’s degree in architecture from Yale and a bachelor’s degree in engineering from the University of Toronto. TIME Magazine named him one of the 25 Most Influential People on the Internet of 2017, and in 2019, he was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list, and gave a TED Talk that has been viewed online over 3 million times.

Reviews for Goodbye, Again

[fredo gumbo · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Profound and informative. Most of the essays were interesting but some fell flat for me. Narration is also monotone. Author is however a fantastic writer

[Anne Ku · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I could relate to this. Tea eggs. Plants. Staying in other people’s homes. Refreshing and touching!

[arianna · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I’ve never felt so seen in my entire life. Eloquent, relatable, human

[viviennestrauss · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I loved this book despite recognizing so many of my own personal flaws/characteristics.

[muddyboy · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

This book is chiefly a memoir in which the author lays out his mental health issues and what he does to overcome them. For instance, write a book like this one to keep busy which takes time away from confronting a plethora of psychological problems. He is forcing us to read his attempts at self therapy. The author description in the book describes him as an architect, designer engineer, artist, (His art in the book is juvenile) playwright and comedy writer (Unbelievable). So, he is trying to drown out his personal insecurities through work and a machine gun approach to his life.

[jetangen4571 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Musings, rememberings, random thoughts, and a reminder to *Slow down, you move too fast. Got to make these moments last.*Jonny takes the reader through anxiety, sadness, and several kinds of mourning in an introspective and thoughtful way. I'm that glad that he did the narration himself because that is usually the best, and he proved that belief. But when it comes out I will buy the print copy so I can see the hoped for drawings before I give it away to someone who needs it.I requested and received a free temporary audio from Harper Audio via NetGalley. Thank you!