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Harrison Scott Key was born in Memphis, but he grew up in Mississippi, among pious, Bible-reading women, and men who either shot things or acquired women pregnant. At the center of his world was his larger-than-life father - a hunter, a fighter, a soccer coach, "a man better suitable for surviving in a remote control frontier wilderness of the 19th century than modern America, with all its intensifying ideas, and paved roads, and insufficient equipped duels. He was a great man, and he educated me a lot of things: how to combat, how to work, how to cheat, how to pray to Jesus about any of it, how to get rid of things with weapons and kitchen knives, and, if necessary, with hammers." Harrison, along with his love of literature and excessive desire for hugging, couldn't have been less like Pop, so when it became clear that he was not able to get rid of anything perfectly or elsewhere make his father happy, he fixed to be everything his father was not: an acting professional, a Presbyterian, and a doctor of philosophy. But when it was time to settle down and start a family of his own, Harrison started to view his father in a fresh light, and recognized - for better and then for worse - how a lot of his old man he'd assimilated. Sly, heartfelt, and tirelessly hilarious, The World's Largest Man is an unforgettable memoir.
