Lisa Brennan-Jobs wrote a devastating memoir, filled with damning details, about her famous father, Steve Jobs, but she says she doesn’t want it to be damning at all. There have been a dozen other biographies and films, so Apple obsessives already know about the basic parts of Brennan-Jobs’s early life: Steve Jobs had her at 23, then denied paternity despite a DNA match and gave little in either emotional or financial support, even after he became the most famous figure in the early computing era.
Small Fry, is Brennan-Jobs’s effort to reclaim herself and her story, writes The New York Times. Brennan-Jobs navigated her childhood while living on welfare with her mother, the artist Chrisann Brennan, but then adolescence ensconced in her father’s wealth. In the memoir, Steve Jobs is vicious to Brennan-Jobs and those around her. But during the book tour before the official release of the book, Brennan-Jobs is worried that the book will be seen as a tell-all exposé instead of a nuanced portrayal of her family.
This is a staggering tale of child abuse, and the fact that the author doesn’t recognize the it and the reporter treats it as mercurial cruelness rather than the archetypal pattern of abuse is the saddest part of all.https://t.co/Hx1KuaKJsx
— Jacob Bacharach (@jakebackpack) August 23, 2018
For someone who “felt ashamed to be the bad part of a great story,” Lisa Brennan-Jobs certainly sticks the blade deep into her late father and does it again & again as @NellieBowles depicts deftly & with those devastating quotes that reveal all (as ever) https://t.co/Gb4ap2kPvx
— Kara Swisher (@karaswisher) August 23, 2018
So this is what she wants readers to know, according to The Times: Steve Jobs may have rejected his daughter for years, but she has forgiven him. She loves him, and she wants the book to show that. But can, or should, the reader forgive him too?
What a guy: “When her mother found a beautiful house and asked Mr. Jobs to buy it for her and Lisa, he agreed it was nice — but bought it for himself and moved in with his wife, Laurene Powell Jobs.” https://t.co/sGvCmTZSbr
— Ben Bergman (@thebenbergman) August 24, 2018
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