Inside the Mind of Tom McAllister: Unraveling 42 Years of Life’s Most Impossible Moments
The beginning essays focus on childhood and family relationships and teenage angst. He rages against the toxic nature of youth sports, how violence is glorified among boys, and the complicated relationships among kids and first romantic relationships. Describing growing up so accurately: “All I wanted then was to fundamentally change myself, but nothing I tried worked. I was changing all the time, but it was all out of my control.” Including the universal feeling of not taking certain events seriously when young and regretting it later. In the 1995 essay, he describes a letter his dad wrote him:
