I Will Be Complete
A Memoir
Glen David Gold
- 'I
- Will
- Be
- Complete
- is
- the
- best
- memoir
- I've
- read
- in
- years.
- It's
- likely
- the
- best
- memoir
- published
- in
- years.'
- Darin
- Strauss,
- author
- of
- Half
- a
- Life
- and
- Chang
- and
- EngFrom
- the
- bestselling
- author
- of
- Carter
- Beats
- the
- Devil
- and
- Sunnyside,
- a
- shocking,
- big-hearted
- memoir
- about
- his
- bizarre
- upbringing
- in
- California
- in
- the
- 1970s
- and
- how
- he
- survived
- it.Glen
- David
- Gold
- grew
- up
- rich
- on
- the
- beaches
- of
- 1970s
- California,
- until
- his
- father
- lost
- a
- fortune
- and
- his
- parents
- divorced
- when
- he
- was
- ten.Glen
- and
- his
- English
- mother
- moved
- to
- San
- Francisco,
- where
- she
- was
- fleeced
- by
- a
- series
- of
- charming
- con
- men
- and
- turned
- increasingly
- wayward.
- When
- he
- was
- twelve,
- she
- took
- off
- for
- New
- York
- without
- telling
- him,
- leaving
- him
- to
- fend
- for
- himself.
- On
- midnight
- streets
- and
- at
- drug-fuelled
- parties,
- wise-cracking
- his
- way
- through
- an
- alarming
- adult
- world,
- Glen
- watched
- his
- mother's
- countless,
- wild
- attempts
- to
- reinvent
- herself.In
- this
- exceptional
- memoir,
- acclaimed
- novelist
- Glen
- David
- Gold
- captures
- his
- bizarre,
- lonely
- upbringing
- and
- how
- it
- shaped
- him
- as
- an
- adult
- with
- stunning
- insight
- and
- unsparing
- candour.
- Shocking,
- mordantly
- funny
- and
- achingly
- affecting,
- he
- tells
- an
- unforgettable
- story
- of
- the
- years
- he
- spent
- trying
- to
- rescue
- his
- mother
- -
- and
- his
- ultimate
- realisation
- that
- only
- by
- breaking
- free
- could
- he
- ever
- hope
- to
- be
- complete.'The
- prose
- is
- crystalline,
- hard
- as
- real
- diamonds,
- flashing,
- revealing.
- The
- story
- is
- simple,
- just
- a
- boy
- and
- his
- mother's
- long
- disintegration,
- but
- the
- journey
- is
- darkly
- complicated,
- heartbreaking,
- beautiful
- as
- hell.'
- Mark
- Childress,
- author
- of
- Crazy
- in Alabama
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