The One You Get: Portrait Of A Family Organism
by Jason Tougaw /
2017 / English / EPUB
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InThe One You Get: Portrait of a Family Organism
The One You Get: Portrait of a Family Organism, Jason
Tougaw marries neuroscience and family lore to tell his story of
growing up gay in 1970s Southern California, raised by hippies
who had "dropped out" in the late sixties and couldn't seem to
find their way back in. "There's something wrong with our blood,"
the family mantra ran, "and it affects our brains"―a catchall
answer for incidents such as Tougaw's schizophrenic
great-grandfather directing traffic in the nude on the Golden
Gate Bridge, the author's own dyslexia and hypochondria, and the
near-death experience of his notorious jockey grandfather, Ralph
Neves.
, Jason
Tougaw marries neuroscience and family lore to tell his story of
growing up gay in 1970s Southern California, raised by hippies
who had "dropped out" in the late sixties and couldn't seem to
find their way back in. "There's something wrong with our blood,"
the family mantra ran, "and it affects our brains"―a catchall
answer for incidents such as Tougaw's schizophrenic
great-grandfather directing traffic in the nude on the Golden
Gate Bridge, the author's own dyslexia and hypochondria, and the
near-death experience of his notorious jockey grandfather, Ralph
Neves.
With shades of Oliver Sacks and Susannah Cahalan, this honest and
unexpected true story recasts the memoir to answer some of life's
big questions: "Where did I come from," "How did I become me,"
and "What happens when the family dog accidentally overdoses on
acid?"
With shades of Oliver Sacks and Susannah Cahalan, this honest and
unexpected true story recasts the memoir to answer some of life's
big questions: "Where did I come from," "How did I become me,"
and "What happens when the family dog accidentally overdoses on
acid?"
