A Memory of Fictions (or) Just Tiddy-Boom

A Memory of Fictions (or) Just Tiddy-Boom is a ribald, brutal, and utterly unique look at race, sex, and growing up the hard way. A modern, jazzy take on the bildungsroman, it dissects the coming of age of Jessie Vincent Grandier, born in 1958 to a high-yellow, Upper-crust New Orleans Creole mother and a Louisiana bayou-bred, military father, Jessie battles to reconcile his existence with expectations and preconceptions of those around him, black and white. He shoulders the weight of...
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A Memory of Fictions (or) Just Tiddy-Boom is a ribald, brutal, and utterly unique look at race, sex, and growing up the hard way. A modern, jazzy take on the bildungsroman, it dissects the coming of age of Jessie Vincent Grandier, born in 1958 to a high-yellow, Upper-crust New Orleans Creole mother and a Louisiana bayou-bred, military father, Jessie battles to reconcile his existence with expectations and preconceptions of those around him, black and white. He shoulders the weight of his black bourgeois family's ambitions through the '60s and '70s, his young mother's death, his father's descent into alcoholism, and the resulting familial melodrama that tears him and his family apart. If not broken, seemingly irreparably bent, he wends his way through Harvard in the 70s, desperate to translate his chaotic life into something akin to art. Post-graduation, he flounders on the edges of the film industry as he drinks his way through the Reagan 80s in gay bars from the West Hollywood to Silverlake. When his grandiose ambitions have abandoned him, when he's almost beaten, and when it's a breath away from too late, he looks back, regards the jagged shards of his life through delirium and regret, and, shockingly to him, pieces the remains into a delicious whole.