{"product_id":"thirty-rooms-to-hide-in-insanity-addiction-and-rock-n-roll-in-the-shadow-of-the-mayo-clinic","title":"Thirty Rooms to Hide In: Insanity  Addiction  and Rock n' Roll in the Shadow of the Mayo Clinic","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor Luke Longstreet Sullivan has a simple way of describing his new memoir: Its like The Shining . . . only funnier. Thirty Rooms to HideIn tells the astonishing story of Sullivans father and his descent from one of the worlds top orthopedic surgeons at the Mayo Clinic to a man who is increasingly abusive  alcoholic  and insane  ultimately dying alone on the floor of a Georgia motel room. For his wife and six sons  the years prior to his death were characterized by turmoil  anger  and family dysfunction; but somehow they were also a time of real happiness for Sullivan and his brothers  full of dark humor and much laughter. Through the 1950s and 1960s  the six brothers had a wildly fun and thoroughly dysfunctional childhood living in a forbidding thirty-room mansion  known as the Millstone  on the outskirts of Rochester  Minnesota. The many rooms of the immense home  as well as their mothers loving protection  allowed the Sullivan brothers to grow up as normal  mischievous boys. Against a backdrop of the timesthe Cold War  the Cuban Missile Crisis  fallout shelters  JFKs assassination  and the Beatlesthe cracks in their home life and their fathers psyche continue to widen. When their mother decides to leave the Millstone and move the family across town  the Sullivan boys are able to find solace in each other and in rock n roll. As Thirty Rooms to HideIn follows the story of the Sullivan familyat times grim  at others poignanta wonderful  dark humor lifts the narrative. Tragic  funny  and powerfully evocative of the 1950s and 1960s  Thirty Rooms to Hide In is a tale of public success and private dysfunction  personal and familial resilience  and the strange power of humor to give refuge when it is needed most  even if it cant always provide the answers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44964384243765,"sku":"ByrdShop_081667955X","price":35.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780816679553.jpg?v=1770459279","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/thirty-rooms-to-hide-in-insanity-addiction-and-rock-n-roll-in-the-shadow-of-the-mayo-clinic","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}