LEADER 02886nam 2200637Ia 450 001 9910784234203321 005 20230809230310.0 010 $a1-55652-689-X 035 $a(CKB)1000000000341440 035 $a(EBL)294983 035 $a(OCoLC)153886609 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000219968 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11910746 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000219968 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10155614 035 $a(PQKB)10182974 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC294983 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL294983 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10173866 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL534610 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000341440 100 $a20051011d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPerishable$b[electronic resource] $ea memoir /$fDirk Jamison 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aChicago, Ill. $cChicago Review Press$dc2006 215 $a1 online resource (223 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-306-03359-4 311 $a1-55652-599-0 327 $aContents; 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; Epilogue 330 $aFascinatingly 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 cruel 606 $aChildren of unemployed parents$zCalifornia$vBiography 606 $aChildren of unemployed parents$zOregon$vBiography 606 $aLatter Day Saints$zCalifornia$vBiography 606 $aLatter Day Saints$zOregon$vBiography 607 $aCalifornia$vBiography 607 $aOregon$vBiography 615 0$aChildren of unemployed parents 615 0$aChildren of unemployed parents 615 0$aLatter Day Saints 615 0$aLatter Day Saints 676 $a979.4/94 676 $aB 700 $aJamison$b Dirk$01470774 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910784234203321 996 $aPerishable$93682830 997 $aUNINA