The Family Lemon Tree: A Memoir

By Thomas W. Goomis

This memoir follows the strange education of growing up untethered: military compounds, raised within the rigid order of a military family. Set against the quiet instability of civilian life-the chaotic bar life, sexual misjudgments, fleeting friendships, married people behaving badly, and the intoxicating freedom of never staying long enough to face consequences.

By adulthood, I could adapt to almost any environment within forty-eight hours - a skill more useful to undercover operatives than that of emotionally functional people.

A social autopsy reveals the private absurdities people mistake for stability in their search for the good life. The trail leads, at various points, from 1970s Midwest to 1990s Switzerland and underscores a comedy of manners and a prolonged identity crisis, all viewed with international seating privileges.

This is the story of two men living inside one body-the rugged individualist and the reluctant European, the protector and the provocateur-and the long, humbling journey it took for them to finally shake hands. Mostly.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3033120261
• ISBN13: 9783033120266
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Thomas W. Goomis
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"