I Will Be Complete (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781101912454)

From the bestselling author of Carter Beats the Devil and Sunnyside, a big-hearted memoir told in three parts: about growing up in the wake of the destructive choices of an extremely unconventional mother.

"Extraordinary ... An audacious, boundary-shattering work." --Los Angeles Times

Glen David Gold's earliest memories are of a childhood in which he had everything he could possibly want. But when his father's fortune disappeared and his parents divorced, Gold fell out of his well-curated Southern California life. He was now growing up by the side of his increasingly erratic mother, among con men and get-rich schemes in '70s San Francisco.

Gold brings all his gifts as a novelist to a kaleidoscope of his most formative experiences: his salvation at boarding school; his dream job at an independent bookstore; a punk rock riot; a romance with a femme fatale; the start of his writing career; and his estrangement from his mother, who moved in with her soul mate, a man who threatened to kill her. By turns heartbreaking and disarmingly funny, I Will Be Complete is one son's journey, a series of love stories layered into a search for autonomy, and, ultimately, a way of letting go.

Author: Glen David Gold
ISBN-10: 1101912456
ISBN-13: 9781101912454
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 06/25/2019
Pages: 496
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 1.20d