Gorilla and the Bird: A Memoir of Madness and a Mother's Love
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| Rating | : | 4.59 (593 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1478991380 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 505 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-06-08 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Zack McDermott has worked as a public defender for the Legal Aid Society of New York. He lives in Brooklyn.. His work has appeared on This American Life, Morning Edition, and Gawker, among other places
Every passerby was an actor; every car would magically stop for him; everything he saw was a cue from ''The Producer'' to help inspire the performance of a lifetime. It's a journey that will take him from New York City back to his Kansas roots and to the one person who might be able to save him, his tough, big-hearted Midwestern mother, nicknamed the Bird, whose fierce and steadfast love is the light in Zack's dark world. The story of a young man fighting to recover from a devastating psychotic break and the mother who refuses to give up on him. Written with raw emotional power, humor, and tenderness, Gorilla and the Bird is a bravely honest account of a young man's unraveling and the relationship that saves him.. Before his odyssey i
You've got to like a book that opens with a Granny who prays the rosary, digs the Stones, and calls the police 'pigs' If Granny is a person not to mess with, Grandpa is a whiskey-soaked philosopher, and Bird-well, that would be Zachariah's mom, who is the toughest and most reliable of them all, a rock on whom whole cities could be founded. But McDermott's real achievement is capturing the moving determination and steadfast love of the mother who saves him, the remarkable Bird who breaks the loneliness, quiets the fear and gives him a home worth returning to. Thompson's influence, this might be the result-rueful, funny, and utterly authentic.'' --Kirkus Reviews. McDermott's memoir is decidedly