Perishable : a memoir / Dirk Jamison.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jamison, Dirk.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children of unemployed parents--California--Biography.

Children of unemployed parents.

Children of unemployed parents--Oregon--Biography.

Latter Day Saints--California--Biography.

Latter Day Saints.

Latter Day Saints--Oregon--Biography.

California--Biography.

California.

Oregon--Biography.

Oregon.

Jamison, Dirk--Childhood and youth.

Jamison, Dirk.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (223 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago, Ill. : Chicago Review Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Fascinatingly disturbing, this memoir chronicles seven years in the life of a distinctly unordinary American family. In 1973, Dirk Jamison's father started having a midlife crisis that never ended, and after purposefully losing his construction job, he moved his family to a ski resort and started feeding them from dumpsters in an effort to reject money and all its trappings. They were never homeless, never desperately poor, but they lived on garbage. While Jamison struggled with adolescence, he faced a father who valued freedom more than anything, an overweight Mormon mother, and a cruel

Contents:

Contents; Part One: Huntington Beach, California, 1973; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Part Two: Mammoth Lakes, California, 1975; Chapter 7; Chapter 8; Chapter 9; Chapter 10; Chapter 11; Chapter 12; Chapter 13; Chapter 14; Part Three: La Grande, Oregon, 1977; Chapter 15; Chapter 16; Chapter 17; Chapter 18; Chapter 19; Chapter 20; Chapter 21; Chapter 22; Chapter 23; Chapter 24; Chapter 25; Epilogue

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-55652-689-X

OCLC:

153886609