Profoundly moving and laugh-out-loud funny, the author and his brother share the "greatest-hits" of their dysfunctional upbringing in the 60's!
"Ladies and Gentlemen...This is Your Captain Drinking..."
When Skip Mahaffey's mom would send him to visit his father, she'd slip a piece of paper in his hand and say, "If he tries to kidnap you, give this to a stranger."
Such was the dysfunctional existence growing up with one of the strangest, most bizarre people Mahaffey ever encountered-his father. Adventures with My Father, a greatest-hits collection of incidents like those, leavened with the humor only Mahaffey can muster.
A gifted commercial pilot who was also an alcoholic, Mahaffey's father abandons his family at a California motel. But that’s just the beginning. On visits with his dad, young Mahaffey travels the country, stopping at nearly every dive bar along the way. He learns to grocery shop at liquor stores, rubs elbows with the Hollywood elite, wakes up on strange couches in strange countries and encounters the one person who could out-weird his dad: his stepmother. Through it all is a sense of terror, awe, disgust and curiosity at the events that remain vivid decades later.
Profoundly moving and laugh-out-loud funny, Adventures with My Father is a soul-searching attempt to come to terms with one man's unique coming of age.