Reinventing the Uninvented Me

After getting laid off Eli has a chance to finally follow his dream – and with that in mind he relocates his wife, Trina, back to his hometown of Greensboro, NC, with the promise that he’s going to finally buckle down, focus and write his novel.
But once back home he falls into bad habits. First, he begins to hangout with his old friends. There are Derek and Quincy, his friends since elementary school, and Langston, a friend since their freshman year at North Carolina A&T State University. Langston is a financial advisor who is married to a woman he is afraid of, and Quincy prays for the life he wants and deals with an ex-wife that hates him. And then there is Derek. Eli had once thought about writing a book based on Derek’s life, but decided it would have been too depressing and nobody would believe it was true -- like the time he got fired as a holiday bell ringer at the mall. Derek’s a good guy with a good personality and sense of humor, but somehow things just don’t work out for him.
Oh, and there is also Darlene -- the woman of Eli’s dreams and potentially the biggest mistake he could make in his life.
“Reinventing the Uninvented Me" is the story of what happens and how it affects everybody’s lives.
Eli has shared food, stories, lies, joys, dreams, alcohol, and tales of triumph and disappointment for nearly 30 years with his boyz. Now that he is back home what Eli discovers – sometimes comically, sometimes tragically -- is more about his friends than he ever imagined and more about himself than he could ever believe possible.
This book is written by Jamie C. Ruff, a former reporter and alumni of A&T. This book, and his other book “Colby Black: from Slave to Cowboy,” is available as an eBook at Amazon for download. It will be available as a paperback later this year.