{"product_id":"baggage-tales-from-a-fully-packed-life","title":"Baggage: Tales from a Fully Packed Life","description":"There is absolutely no logical reason why I am here. The life trajectory my nationality and class and circumstances portended for me was not even remotely close to the one I now navigate. But logic is a science and living is an art.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe release I felt in writing my first memoir, Not My Father’s Son, was matched only by how my speaking out empowered so many to engage with their own trauma. I was reminded of the power of my words and the absolute duty of authenticity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut…\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNo one ever fully recovers from their past. There is no cure for it. You just learn to manage and prioritize it. I believe the second you feel you have triumphed or overcome something – an abuse, an injury to the body or the mind, an addiction, a character flaw, a habit, a person – you have merely decided to stop being vigilant and embraced denial as your modus operandi. And that is what this book is about, and for: to remind you not to buy in to the Hollywood ending.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIronically maybe, much of Baggage chronicles my life in Hollywood and how, since I recovered from a nervous breakdown at 28, work has repeatedly whisked me away from personal calamities to sets and stages around the world. It is also about marriage(s): starting with the break-up of my first (to a woman) and ending with the ascension to my second (to a man) with many kissed toads in between! But in everything, each failed relationship or encounter with a legend (Liza! X Men! Gore Vidal! Kubrick! Spice Girls!), in every bad decision or moment of sensual joy I have endeavored to show what I have learned and how I’ve become who I am today: a happy, flawed, vulnerable, fearless middle-aged man, with a lot of baggage.","brand":"Dey St.","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42986088431696,"sku":"9780062435781B","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/products\/baggage-tales-from-a-fully-packed-life","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}