MARK OLIVER EVERETT is the lead singer, guitarist, and keyboardist of Eels. Rolling Stone magazine called him the Kurt Vonnegut of rock.
Everett is the Kurt Vonnegut of the rock world. --Rolling Stone One of the best books ever written by a contemporary artist. --Pete Townshend It is, like the music of Eels, intellectual, wry and unflinching as it conveys complex emotions with simple, graceful language. --Los Angeles Times Everett captures the drama of a suburban Virginia family bedeviled by illness, early death, and madness, and illustrates how such adversities shaped his striking music gifts--and now this pitch-perfect memoir. --Elle