Author Dan Fante’s story parallels his father John’s life a little more closely than he probably would have liked in his honest, no-holds barred memoir that examines Dan’s life as part of the publicly functional family of screenwriter and author John and as part of a dysfunctional private family where alcoholism an depression is passed from father to son to brother, but where a raw talent exists if only it can be captured and focused. From his life as an awkward child to a restless young adult living hand to mouth on the opposite coast from his family, Fante writes with a raw honesty that feels invasive at times as he describes a very personal and ever evolving relationship with his father and with alcohol and how he fought to get both under control and into perspective in his life. Fante writes from the heart and doesn’t sugarcoat anything, but comes to realize that the journeys he made and the family he had are all part of what made him who and what he is today, which, when all is said and done, is not such a bad thing.
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