The Summer of S.H.I.T.

My father brings his three sons together

1980 L-R: my father, me, my mother, my youngest brother Charlie, and Jacques

Between 1974 and 1978, while I was chasing my film dream across California, our family’s world detonated in ways I only fully understood years later.

Nana died on St. Patrick’s Day, 1974 — a massive cerebral hemorrhage, found by Jacques on the floor next to her bed after a party …