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An Evening with Mikel Jollett
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An Evening with Mikel Jollett
Booksmiths Evening with Mikel Jollett scheduled for Saturday, May 2nd has been moved to an online event.  Mikel will discuss his remarkable life story, perform exclusive material from the new album, Hollywood Park, and have a Q&A with the audience. Tickets will support your local indie bookstore and include a signed copy of the book. Private links will be emailed the day of the event.

PLEASE NOTE: tickets are still available here.

We were never young. We were just too afraid of ourselves. No one told us who we were or what we were or where all our parents went. They would arrive like ghosts, visiting us for a morning, an afternoon. They would sit with us or walk around the grounds, to laugh or cry or toss us in the air while we screamed. Then theyd disappear again, for weeks, for months, for years, leaving us alone with our memories and dreams, our questions and confusion

So begins Hollywood Park, Mikel Jollett's remarkable memoir. His story opens in an experimental commune in California, which later morphed into the Church of Synanon, one of the country's most infamous and dangerous cults. Per the leaders mandate, all children, including Jollett and his older brother, were separated from their parents when they were six months old, and handed over to the cults School. After spending years in what was essentially an orphanage, Mikel escaped the cult one morning with his mother and older brother. But in many ways, life outside Synanon was even harder and more erratic.

In his raw, poetic and powerful voice, Jollett portrays a childhood filled with abject poverty, trauma, emotional abuse, delinquency and the lure of drugs and alcohol. Raised by a clinically depressed, narcissistic mother, tormented by his angry older brother, subjected to the unpredictability of troubled step-fathers and longing for contact with his father, a former heroin addict and ex-con, Jollett slowly, often painfully, builds a life that leads him to Stanford University and, eventually, to finding his voice as a writer and musician.

Hollywood Park is told at first through the limited perspective of a child, and then broadens as Jollett begins to understand the world around him. Although Mikel Jollett's story is filled with heartbreak, it is ultimately an unforgettable portrayal of love at its fiercest and most loyal.

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Mikel Jollett is the frontman of the indie band The Airborne Toxic Event. Prior to forming the band, Jollett graduated with honors from Stanford University. He was an on-air columnist for NPR's All Things Considered, an editor-at-large for Men's Health and an editor at Filter magazine. His fiction has been published in McSweeney's.

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All tickets include one single-use login and one copy of Hollywood Park to be received via direct mail in late May.

Tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable. All ticket sales are final.

Location

Virtual  link to be sent upon completion of your order (View)
CA
United States

Categories

Arts > Literary
Other > Health & Wellness
Other > Spiritual

Kid Friendly: Yes!
Dog Friendly: No
Non-Smoking: No
Wheelchair Accessible: Yes!

Contact

Owner: The Booksmith
On BPT Since: May 28, 2009
 
The Booksmith
www.booksmith.com


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