Small Fry

I picked up this book for its title. Upon further search wanted to know what would it like be to be Steve Job's daughter.

Lisa Brennan jobs is the daughter of Steve Jobs and Chrisann Brennan, who is also the author of this book.

The book starts with the childhood of the author where she has described how her mother felt helpless and cried in anguish because she couldn't carry it all by herself. Mr Jobs comes across as an eccentric,irresponsible person. For years he abandoned his wife and daughter denying paternity.

With time, Steve starts visiting his family. Lisas mom believes it could be his professional failures that made him want somebody to lean on.

As Lisa grows up she starts detesting her mom and starts growing closer to her father. Even when she has written about the time spent with her mother, there aren't any invisible threads that's felt but her relationship with her father was something she craved and the bond is palpable.

The time spent with her mother and father are contrasting yet circled by the same emotions.

A life filled with riches have pits of loneliness while a life with struggles could have the same but there isn't time to think about it because there are always bigger problems.

My heart goes out to Lisa's mom because life treated her so unjustly. Deprived of support from her husband and respect from her daughter I wonder how she must have mustered the courage to pull through life.

I liked the brutal honesty with which she has written the book. From her father's farts to her admissions about her own need to dress provocatively during a certain stage in her life , I quite liked Lisa's unabashed style.

The book explores relationships marred by vulnerability and arbitrary decisions.