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Riding with the Ghost : A Memoir by Justin Taylor is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Riding with the Ghost : A Memoir about?

An unflinching memoir from a writer reckoning with his relationship with his troubled father and the complicated legacy that each generation hands down to the next “Justin Taylor’s relentless, peripatetic, and tender search for reconciliation with his late troubled father blooms into a full-throated song of joy about his own life lived through music, teaching, travel, and literature.”—Lauren Groff, author of Florida NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWS When Justin Taylor was thirty, his father, Larry, drove to the top of the Nashville airport parking garage to take his own life. Thanks to the intervention of family members, he was not successful, but the incident forever transformed how Taylor thinks of his father, and how he thinks of himself as a son. Moving back and forth in time from that day, Riding with the Ghost captures the past’s power to shape, strengthen, and distort our visions of ourselves and one another. We see Larry as the middle child in a chilly Long Island family; as a beloved Little League coach who listens to kids with patience and curiosity; as an unemployed father struggling to keep his marriage together while battling long-term illne

Who reads Riding with the Ghost : A Memoir?

Author

Justin Taylor

Publisher

Random House Publishing Group

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9780593129296

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Family & Relationships, Memoir

Rating

4.5 / 5 (9 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14