Gritty Mermaid Reboot

I’m reading “The Ticking is the Bomb” by Nick Flynn

Its a series of somewhat disjointed chapters along these topics:

• His mother suicide and his father’s alcoholism
• Becoming obsessed with swimming long distances to handle the trauma of those things.
• How the years between 2003 and 2009 were horrible, unbearably, inhumanely awful and there’s no way to make sense of that.
• His personal vendetta against Sam Harris and Sam Harris’ utterly loathsomeness as a human being and as a writer.