Mikel Jollett
Autor(a) de Hollywood Park: A Memoir
Obras por Mikel Jollett
The Airborne Toxic Event [sound recording] (2009) — Composer, vocals, guitar, keyboards — 6 exemplares
The Airborne Toxic Event [sound recording] {Bonus Track} — Composer, vocals, guitar, keyboards — 1 exemplar
Dope Machines [sound recording] (2015) — Composer, Engineer, Group Member, Mixing, Producer — 1 exemplar
Associated Works
McSweeney's Issue 27 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): With Lots of Things Like This/Autophobia (2008) — Contribuidor — 217 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1974-05-21
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Los Angeles County, California, USA
- Locais de residência
- Westchester, California, USA
- Educação
- Westchester High School
Stanford University - Ocupações
- singer
guitarist
frontman for indie rock band the Airborne Toxic Event - Relações
- the Airborne Toxic Event (band)
Membros
Críticas
Prémios
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Associated Authors
Estatísticas
- Obras
- 7
- Also by
- 1
- Membros
- 309
- Popularidade
- #76,232
- Avaliação
- 4.1
- Críticas
- 25
- ISBN
- 8
The author tries to tell his story in the age-appropriate voice, to express how he perceived it. This is very effective. Describing situations that he couldn’t quite explain with language available to him as a child, you can feel along with him. Interestingly, much of what we know about the trauma he experienced is presented alongside his mother’s complete denial of his perspective, and in some cases reality.
He does an uncharacteristically bold rejection of his mother’s world when he says he wants to live with his father. As a preteen, having been conditioned to cater to every one of his mom’s needs and none of his own, he manages to grab the lifeline of moving in with his dad. A future of success is still just a fantasy as he struggles with drugs and alcohol in his early teen years. Mikel describes in painful detail the masks he wears for others, because he is certain he is worthless.
He describes the moment - after a terrible accident - that he realizes he doesn’t want to die. And he reaches out to his dad and Bonnie for help. And they do. He still has many mountains to climb and set backs to face, but it is a corner turned, a possible future opening up. What kept me reading from successes and failures in school and relationships was the burning question… How did he survive?
I listened to the audiobook and I am glad I did. The book is read by the author and set with music from his band. Beautifully done.… (mais)