Where's My Participation Trophy? is a sharp, funny, and unexpectedly heartfelt memoir about growing up as an "almost" -- almost cool, almost confident, almost belonging -- in the suburban world of driveway basketball hoops, dial-up internet, chlorine-green hair, and friendships that shape you long before you understand how. Through a series of personal essays spanning childhood to early adulthood, Paul S. Rothenberg looks at identity, class, family, grief, humor, and the strange process of figuring yourself out one borrowed trait at a time. Honest, self-aware, and deeply relatable, it's a book for anyone who has ever felt slightly out of place while trying to find their place -- which is to say, nearly everyone.