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Don't Call Me Jupiter—Book Three "Wheel in the Sky"
- Memoir of a Reluctant Hippie Kid
- Narrated by: Tom J. Bross
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
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Publisher's Summary
For fans of Running with Scissors, The Glass Castle, and Educated comes a true coming-of-age memoir about a vagabond family led by a self-absorbed, eccentric hippie mother during the age of Aquarius. Devastating family drama, abandonment, and drugs are balanced with laugh-out-loud humor that will keep you listening. You'll laugh, cry, and be left begging for more.
In this final episode of this memoir series, Tom, the lifetime bachelor, takes in his two young nephews to keep his sister's children in the family. The enormous challenges of this sudden and abrupt change leads to life-altering changes. Will the cycle of abandonment be broken, or are we destined to be prisoners of our past?
In a test of wills, who will prevail to determine the long-term fate of the children? In a showdown of authority, lines are drawn into the sand. Will the kids unite the family, or tear it apart? The ties that bind are put to the ultimate test, resulting in unexpected and enduring results.
And with most dysfunctional families, 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 on 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.