Subtitle on dust jacket: how I lost my mother, found my father, and dealt with family addiction.
Contents:
Prologue -- Family history -- Life with Leslie -- Skipping a generation -- Disclosure -- Pen to paper -- Hard work -- Ghosts -- Lost and found -- Author's note.
Summary:
In kindergarten, the author's teacher asks him to draw his family, with a mommy and a daddy. But his family is much more complicated than that. His mom is an addict, in and out of rehab, and in and out of his life. His father is a mystery - he doesn't know where to find him, or even what his name is. The author lives with his grandparents - two very loud, very loving, very opinionated people who had thought they were through with raising children - until the author came along.--publisher's description.
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