"Blisteringly funny, intelligent, and poignant, The Advocate is both a comic and dramatic story about growing up a ‘brainiac’ in a working-class Black family and learning to navigate the hellish levels of intellectual and cultural blindness. The humiliation of his beloved grandmother unleashes the most profound and extreme passion of humanity, and young Simon becomes obsessed with educating himself. The alienating neuroses, while being the catalyst for extra creativity, is so bedeviling that Simon becomes mysterious and labyrinthine.