Sean’s blond-bombshell mother regularly entertains Black
Panthers and movie stars in the family’s marble and glass
penthouse. His enigmatic father uses a jet helicopter to
drop Sean off at the video arcade. The three live happily
together "eight-hundred feet in the air above San Francisco;
in an apartment at the top of a building at the top of a
hill: full of light, full of voices, full of windows, full
of water and bridges and hills." But when his father
divorces his mother and marries her best friend, Sean’s life
blows apart. His memoir shows us how he survived, spinning
out a "deliriously searing and convincing" portrait of a
wicked stepmother (The New York Times Book Review), a
meeting with the pope, sexual awakening, and a tour of "the
planet’s most interesting reform schools" (Details).
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