He finely written but deeply scarred memoir details the emotional violence father and son inflicted upon each other as one fought to reclaim his place in American letters and the other struggled not to find his own voice only but also to survive the madness that was his family's dark Inheritance.
In this searing, literary portrait, father and son appear like two rounds of double-ought buckshot fired from the same shotgun. He recounts their twin trajectories with a scorched tenderness, hard-won wisdom, and bitter wit that his father would have understood better than any one