Chasing Apple To Find Jerry - Softcover

Alexis Reed had always known there was something different about her father Jerry—he’d been nicknamed “Crazy Apple,” after all, and the few interactions they’d shared in her youth were defined by his unpredictable mood swings, hard-to-follow conversations, and a prevailing, obsessive belief that he’d soon reunite with Alexis’s mother. Rather than to go on pretending she was fatherless, however, a high school assignment inspired Alexis to try and understand the man who she called Dad and everyone else called crazy. Heartfelt, raw, and unflinching in its portrayal of a daughter learning to navigate her father’s mental illness and perpetual homelessness, Chasing Apple to Find Jerry is an unforgettable memoir that takes readers on a journey of Alexis’s most promising father-daughter triumphs and deepest familial disappointments—all in the name of finding, and keeping, her beloved father Jerry around for good.