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Don't Call Me Jupiter—Book Two "Lightning Crashes": Memoir of a Reluctant Hippie Kid
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.
Don’t Call Me Jupiter is packed with hilarious and horrifying true stories.… Funny, yet its central theme is abandonment.
The story fast forwards to 1996 when a suspicious death in the family leaves the fate of two young boys in the hands of Tom’s dysfunctional family. Tom, the quintessential lifetime bachelor, and geeky Don Draper is thrust headfirst back into the mayhem of his family’s hippie lifestyle.
Was it murder, drugs, abuse, or something else? Join this disbanded family as they’re forced together to confront a horrific crisis and scramble for resolution. Can the cycle of abandonment be broken? See how our past decisions have serious life-long consequences....
And with most dysfuctional famliies they come with a cost.
Author's Imagine a 1970s 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 into 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.
Don’t Call Me Jupiter is packed with hilarious and horrifying true stories.… Funny, yet its central theme is abandonment.
The story fast forwards to 1996 when a suspicious death in the family leaves the fate of two young boys in the hands of Tom’s dysfunctional family. Tom, the quintessential lifetime bachelor, and geeky Don Draper is thrust headfirst back into the mayhem of his family’s hippie lifestyle.
Was it murder, drugs, abuse, or something else? Join this disbanded family as they’re forced together to confront a horrific crisis and scramble for resolution. Can the cycle of abandonment be broken? See how our past decisions have serious life-long consequences....
And with most dysfuctional famliies they come with a cost.
Author's Imagine a 1970s 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 into 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.
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March 31, 2025
Oh my heart. I cried the entire first part of the book. Literal tears falling down my face at the grocery store. I laughed because he's so hilarious at times and I was angry right there beside him for what happened. I loved this book.
July 24, 2025
pretty good. light reading. funny, weird, hippy
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