The one you get
Subtitle: portrait of a family organism
By: Jason Tougaw
Edition: First US edition.
Publisher: Dzanc Books
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
ISBN-13: 9781945814327
Subjects: Families; Biography; Family; Gay college teachers; Health; American Authors; Identity (Psychology)
Description: "In 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. 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?'"-
Table of contents: title: The San Luis Rey; title: Accidents; title: Guesthouse; title: DNA; title: Skipping on pink ribbon; title: Stanley and Cathy, I pronounce you; title: Stanley's map; title: Aplysia California; title: Del Dios; title: Miller School; title: Neves Spelled backwards is seven; title: Leopards eat lepers and die; title: The one you get; title: Police on our backs; title: "He reminded me of you"; title: Junky; title: Idaho Street; title: The real Idaho; title: Chosen; title: Cocaine; title: The human league effect; title: Red door; title: New life, new song, new religion; title: Manic and depressed; title: Ryan and Cathy, I pronounce you; title: Anti-hippie; title: How does it feel?; title: Schizophrenic; title: Endings.