The Art of Getting It Wrong: Finding Good in the Misadventures of Life

Miller (Liberating King), creator of the Miller Fam YouTube channel, shares advice on dealing with mistakes in this zippy account. “Your failures can feed your fears or seed your blessings. The choice is up to you,” Miller contends, using anecdotes from famous figures and his life as a Christian father of seven to encourage readers to embrace their blunders and love themselves. Noting that Walt Disney’s first animation studio flopped and that Thomas Edison failed 1,000 times before getting the light bulb right, Miller outlines “three tenets of the art of the epic fail”: “failure isn’t final,” “you aren’t your mistakes,” and “your failures don’t define you, but they can refine you.” The author tells readers “it’s gonna be okay if you have to rethink your position on a variety of subjects,” recounting how as a preteen he misread Genesis and, until his wife corrected him years later, believed that Adam and Eve didn’t have skin before the fall. Miller’s conversational style and pop culture references entertain (“There are very few sentences that come from my mouth that aren’t at least influenced by ’80s and ’90s movies,” he writes before quoting Ferris Bueller’s Day Off). Equal parts funny, cringy, and endearing, this animated work delivers. Agent: Tom Dean, A Drop of Ink. (June)