One night in 1979, 11-year-old Moon Unit Zappa falls asleep to the sound of her parents arguing. Her father, Frank, is a musician and composer with a knotty, complex aural style and a seemingly insatiable appetite for sleeping with his fans.
These are the kinds of harrowing details that populate the early pages of Zappa's book, which features plenty of parental neglect as well as outright abuse, including a story about her mother handcuffing her to her younger brother Dweezil and making them listen to a recording of their own crying.
Perhaps the most telling observation about the Zappa family's particular dysfunction comes in the form of a brief observation that only Frank's presence could stop his young kids from fighting, as they were trained to understand that his music was always his priority.
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