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A exceptional memoir from the best-selling writer of Friday Night Signals and Three Evenings in August.Excitement Bissinger's twins were created three minutes-and a world-apart. Gerry, the more mature one, is a graduate student at Penn, preparing to become a teacher. His sibling Zach has spent his life participating special colleges. He'll never drive a car, or kiss a woman, or live by himself. He's a savant, challenged by serious intellectual deficits but also blessed with rare skills: an amazing memory, a stunning knack for navigation, and a reflexive credibility that can make him both socially uncomfortable and surprisingly sensible.Buzz noticed that while he had been an attentive dad, he didn't really understand what it was like to be Zach. So one summer time night Excitement and Zach struck the road to revisit all the places they may have lived jointly during Zach's twenty-four years. Zach revels in his stories, and Buzz desires this journey to their shared past provides them better and show him the strange workings of his son's mind and heart. The trip also becomes Buzz's personal quest, yielding revelations about his own parents, the price of ambition, and its own influence on his twins.As dad and son quest from Philadelphia to LA, they start to see the best and most severe of America and each other. Ultimately, Buzz increases a fresh and uplifting intelligence, realizing that Zach's worldview has a sturdy logic of its own: a reasoning that deserves the best respect. And by making use of Zach's twin, Gerry, Excitement learns a far more vital lesson about Zach: persona transcends intellect. We come to see Zach as he truly is: patient, fearless, perceptive, kind-a man of excellent persona.
