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" You are a complete disappointment. " On his deathbed, Mike Edison s father gasped those words to his son and that was just the beginning of his devastating salvo. For anyone who has ever suffered from parental bullying, this often-hilarious yet intensely heartbreaking memoir from the former "High Times" publisher will provide both solace and laughter. It begins with a child s hunger for love and acceptance and continues through years of withering criticism, perverse expectations, and unfounded competition from a narcissistic father who couldn t tolerate his son s happiness and libertine spirit. In the end, the author unravels a relationship that could never be fixed but perhaps didn t need to be. In the spirit of Augusten Burroughs by way of Jeannette Walls, Edison s memoir is a candid, devastating, and deeply funny read."