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Don't Call Me Jupiter: Memoir of a Reluctant Hippie Kid

Don't Call Me Jupiter: Memoir of a Reluctant Hippie Kid

by Tom J. Bross

2021 307 pages
Nonfiction Biography Memoir Autobiography

About this book

Don’t Call Me Jupiter is a true coming-of-age memoir of psychedelic adventure about growing up in 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 turning pages. You'll laugh, cry, cringe, and be left begging for more.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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...