From the bestselling author of Carter Beats the Devil and Sunnyside, a shocking, big-hearted memoir about his bizarre upbringing in California in the 1970s and how he survived it.

Author of "Carter Beats The Devil" Glen David Gold reveals the nature of his upbringing in seventies California, in which the twelve-year-old Glen would wise-crack his way through his mother's drug-fuelled scene as she repeatedly attempted to reinvent herself. A powerful work in the tradition of Mary Karr's "The Liar's Club".

A fine, funny, discomfiting book. And very candid.