An Unflinching Memoir Froma Writer Reckoning With His Relationship With His Troubled Father And The Complicated Legacy That Each Generation Hands Down To The Nextjustin Taylors Relentless, Peripatetic, And Tender Search For Reconciliation With His Late Troubled Father Blooms Into A Full-throated Song Of Joy About His Own Life Lived Through Music, Teaching, Travel, And Literature.lauren Groff, Author Offloridanamed One Of The Best Books Of The Year By Kirkus Reviewswhen Justin Taylor Was Thirty, His Father, Larry, Drove To The Top Of The Nashville Airport Parking Garage To Take His Own Life. Thanks To The Intervention Of Family Members, He Was Not Successful, But The Incidentforevertransformedhow Taylor Thinks Of His Father, And How He Thinks Of Himself As A Son.moving Back And Forth In Time From That Day,riding With The Ghostcaptures The Pasts Power To Shape, Strengthen, And Distort Our Visions Of Ourselves And One Another. We See Larry As The Middle Child In A Chilly Long Island Family; As A Beloved Little League Coach Who Listens To Kids With Patience And Curiosity; As An Unemployed Father Struggling To Keep His Marriage Together While Battling Long-term Illness And Depression.