02886nam 2200637Ia 450 991081606700332120230809230310.01-55652-689-X(CKB)1000000000341440(EBL)294983(OCoLC)153886609(SSID)ssj0000219968(PQKBManifestationID)11910746(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000219968(PQKBWorkID)10155614(PQKB)10182974(MiAaPQ)EBC294983(Au-PeEL)EBL294983(CaPaEBR)ebr10173866(CaONFJC)MIL534610(EXLCZ)99100000000034144020051011d2006 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrPerishable[electronic resource] a memoir /Dirk Jamison1st ed.Chicago, Ill. Chicago Review Pressc20061 online resource (223 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-306-03359-4 1-55652-599-0 Contents; Part One: Huntington Beach, California, 1973; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Part Two: Mammoth Lakes, California, 1975; Chapter 7; Chapter 8; Chapter 9; Chapter 10; Chapter 11; Chapter 12; Chapter 13; Chapter 14; Part Three: La Grande, Oregon, 1977; Chapter 15; Chapter 16; Chapter 17; Chapter 18; Chapter 19; Chapter 20; Chapter 21; Chapter 22; Chapter 23; Chapter 24; Chapter 25; EpilogueFascinatingly disturbing, this memoir chronicles seven years in the life of a distinctly unordinary American family. In 1973, Dirk Jamison's father started having a midlife crisis that never ended, and after purposefully losing his construction job, he moved his family to a ski resort and started feeding them from dumpsters in an effort to reject money and all its trappings. They were never homeless, never desperately poor, but they lived on garbage. While Jamison struggled with adolescence, he faced a father who valued freedom more than anything, an overweight Mormon mother, and a cruelChildren of unemployed parentsCaliforniaBiographyChildren of unemployed parentsOregonBiographyLatter Day SaintsCaliforniaBiographyLatter Day SaintsOregonBiographyCaliforniaBiographyOregonBiographyChildren of unemployed parentsChildren of unemployed parentsLatter Day SaintsLatter Day Saints979.4/94BJamison Dirk1664441MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910816067003321Perishable4022477UNINA