![]() His mixing of those cultural memories with family pain and family hostility and family love hits home. But he left and his memories evoke a time that may have passed but which we all remember. Had Dan never moved away, the anger which is part of growing up as an outsider here might have dissipated at least in part. Dan goes home, and the ensuing tale of fart jokes, profanity and death, laced with hilarity and howling pain, is raw, honest and profound. When the book opens Dan, who is in LA working in PR, learns that his beloved father has ALS and that his mother is again battling recurrent cancer. Her big boisterous family gleefully followed her example. 413 reviews Dave Eggers meets David Sedaris in this uproariously funny, unflinchingly honest, and tender memoir.Her stratagem for coping with disapproving neighbors? Open all the windows and drop among many other expletives, the f-bomb-at the top of her voice. Home is Burning by Dan Marshall(Goodreads Author) 3.82 She was, however, fierce, to put it mildly. 'Its hard to imagine a memoir about moving home to take care of your cancer-stricken Mom and your dying Dad could be fun to read, but Dan Marshall manages t. His father was a prominent newspaper figure and was not Mormon. Dan grew up with a pack of siblings in a sprawling house in Holladay set squarely in the center of a heavily Mormon neighborhood. ![]() For those who grew up in Holladay as a non-Mormon, this tale of coming of age in Utah in the '80s, which is intertwined with the painful reality of coping with the death of a parent, will resonate in ways that might make you flinch or cry but will also make you laugh. ![]()
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