Alan Cumming grew up in a home with his parents and his brother Tom. Alan's father was a very hard person to understand. One minute he would be quiet as can be and the next screaming at the family. This is how Alan grew up never knowing how his father would be to him.

The story takes you from his early years all the way up till 2012. It goes back and forth, but I didn't get confused. Alan talks about his life, his goals and all of the parts in his life that at times seemed to fit together and other times they didn't.

Alan was involved in the making of a show called Who Do You Think You Are? Alan is hoping to find out for his mother what really happened to her father. His grandfather Thomas had gone off to fight the war. Upon returning back to his family, he decided that he couldn't stay with them and went off to another country. There was his mother's story of what happened to him and Alan was on his journey to find out the truth.

NOT MY FATHER'S SON tells of the problems Alan had finding himself and why his father was so mean to him. At one point his father informs Thomas, Alan's brother that Alan is not his son.

NOT MY FATHER'S SON is an interesting book, and I learned a lot about problems Alan had growing up and into adulthood. I would have like to hear a little bit more of how and why he took the job on the show the Good Wife.

If you like reading memoirs, you will really enjoy NOT MY FATHER'S SON.