Perishable: a memoir
"Perishable is a childhood memoir that chronicles seven years in the life of an almost ordinary family - that ate garbage." "In 1973, Dirk Jamison's father quit working so that he could ski instead and started feeding his family from dumpsters. His "path with heart" forced Dirk to maintain a precarious balance between a reality-challenged Mormon mother trying to get her children into heaven, an increasingly obsessive dad whose credo is "Responsibility - what a stupid word," a sister who wants t…
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- Full title :Perishable : a memoir / Dirk Jamison.
Summary
"Perishable is a childhood memoir that chronicles seven years in the life of an almost ordinary family - that ate garbage." "In 1973, Dirk Jamison's father quit working so that he could ski instead and started feeding his family from dumpsters. His "path with heart" forced Dirk to maintain a precarious balance between a reality-challenged Mormon mother trying to get her children into heaven, an increasingly obsessive dad whose credo is "Responsibility - what a stupid word," a sister who wants to kill him with a long series of "unfortunate accidents," and the onset of puberty with its inconvenient erections and forbidden fantasies."
"Whether describing the joys of discovering free candy bars that looked "like someone stepped on them just a little" or the misery of feeling that the people you love the most are all lunatics, Perishable is startling and punchy, spare and poignant. And it doesn't just bring to life an unforgettable childhood, it exposes the consequences of not making a living, of rejecting money and all that comes with it - the anti-American dream."--Jacket.
Edition Statements
- Publication Date:©2006.
- Edition:1st ed
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Chicago Review Press
- Place of Publication:Chicago, Ill
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2006.
The Physical Object
- Description:212 pages : : illustrations ; : 21 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:1556525990, 9781556525995
- oclc:ocm62089806
- LC Classification:CT275.J2965
- Dewey Decimal:B
Table of Contents
Huntington Beach, California, 1973 -- Mammoth Lakes, California, 1975 -- La Grande, Oregon, 1977.
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