Thirty Rooms to Hide In : Insanity, Addiction, and Rock 'n' Roll in the Shadow of the Mayo Clinic (Hardcover)

from MaryAnn12

This is a book you will not want to put down. It will make you laugh out loud and cry from beginning to end, and is a heartbreaking chronology of a family's history in an unusual town. It took a lot of guts to write this story and it has a lot to say about the gradual and insidious path that suck...

from MaryAnn12

This is a book you will not want to put down. It will make you laugh out loud and cry from beginning to end, and is a heartbreaking chronology of a family's history in an unusual town. It took a lot of guts to write this story and it has a lot to say about the gradual and insidious path that suck...

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I highly recommend this book to those who grew up in the late '50's and 60's and particularly if they had/have a parent who was or is afflicted with alcohoism.

from JanaRose1

At one time Luke's father was a top orthopedic surgeon at the Mayo Clinic. Alcoholism turned him into a verbally abusive man, one who slowly descends into madness. I found this book to be very repetitive. It went over the same event multiple times, merely switching from journal entries to intervi...

from Beamis12

I could use many words to describe this heartfelt memoir. Words like insightful, compassionate, heartbreaking but most of all it is a memoir about a family. A family that started out like all families, actually a little above socioeconomically, as the father is a respected neurosurgeon at the May...