Don't Call Me Jupiter - Book One Tightrope: Memoir of a Reluctant Hippie Kid

For fans of Running with Scissors, The Glass Castle, and Educated, comes a personal memoir from author Tom J. Bross. He recalls stories about his dysfunctional family and how abandonment issues by his narcissist mother led to serious consequences.Don't Call Me Jupiter is packed with hilarious and horrifying true stories... Funny, yet its central theme is abandonment.

The story begins with an episode that occurred in 1974. When Tom Bross (age 12) experiences a sudden move from Davis to San Anselmo to live with their God Family. Just two months later they move back to Davis with no place to live. His brother and sisters are dropped off at their friend's houses. Tom ends up in the garage of one of his mother's ex-lovers. It's from this dreary location that he recalls his family's truly strange transition.

Led by his mother, the Martha Stewart of Hippies, they transform from a normal conservative, mid-western, Catholic family into a clan of liberal, psychedelic-bus-tripping, pot-smoking, nature-loving, California free spirits.

And with most dysfuctional famliies they come with a cost.

Author's Note: "Imagine a 1970's version of Shameless but with less booze, more weed, and way more hallucinogenics."

Don't Call Me Jupiter provides an accurate, visceral, entertaining, real-life perspective into the ups and downs of surviving a hippie childhood with a narcissist as a mother. As you dig deeper into his struggle you learn how to forgive what you can't forget.

Author: Tom J. Bross
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: 02/19/2021
Pages: 292
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.66d
ISBN13: 9798598485941
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs

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