{"product_id":"9781101946398","title":"I Will Be Complete: A Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the best-selling author of \u003ci\u003eCarter Beats the Devil \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eSunnyside,\u003c\/i\u003e a big-hearted memoir told in three parts: about growing up in the wake of the destructive choices of an extremely unconventional mother.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGlen David Gold was raised rich, briefly, in southern California at the end of the go-go 1960s. But his father's fortune disappears, his parents divorce, and Glen falls out of his well-curated life and into San Francisco at the epicenter of the Me Decade: the inimitable '70s. Gold grows up with his mother, among con men and get-rich schemes. Then, one afternoon when he's twelve, she moves to New York without telling him, leaving him to fend for himself. \u003ci\u003eI Will Be Complete\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of how Gold copes, honing a keen wit and learning how to fill in the emotional gaps: \"I feel love and then it's like I'm driving on black ice with no contact against the road.\" He leads us though his early salvation at boarding school; his dream job at an independent bookstore in Los Angeles in 1983; a punk rock riot; a romance with a femme fatale to the soundtrack of R.E.M.; and his attempts to forge a career as a writer. Along the way, Gold becomes increasingly fascinated with his father's self-described \"cheerful amorality\" and estranged from his mother, who lives with her soulmate, a man who threatens to kill her. Clear-eyed and heartbreaking, Gold's story ultimately speaks to everyone who has struggled with the complexity of parental bonds by searching for—and finding—autonomy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47021632323824,"sku":"9781101946398","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781101946398_p0.jpg?v=1763689900","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781101946398","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}