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Type: documentary

Status: favorite

Author: Sean Wilsey

Tags: memoir poverty suicide redemption san_francisco divorce excess wealth psychological_trauma tolkien_allusions boarding_school skateboarding

Description: McSweeney's Editor tells of childhood trauma from divorce of his high society San FranciscoMcSweeney's Editor tells of childhood trauma from divorce of his high society San Francisco parents, his adoloscent downfall and subsequent struggle to escape emotional machinations of evil stepmother and others.

At once hilarious, depressing and life affirming....

2006-01-15