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The saying goes that "God only gives you what you can handle." Well God didn't grow up in my atheist, Wiccan, fame-laden, oversexed, teetotalling, drug-free, cloistered, chaotic, non-communicative, workaholic, feral-feeling house.'

For Moon Unit, daughter of musician Frank Zappa and his 'manager', Gail, processing a life so unique, so punctuated…

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Sometime circa 2005ish, a friend of mine told me I should read "America, the Beautiful," by Moon Zappa & I couldn't put it down. Granted, I had no idea who Moon Unit Zappa even was & only vaguely had an understanding of who Frank Zappa was, but at a purely literary aesthetic level, I LOVED this book & Moon's talent for herself. It was a hilarious take on the Gen X struggle to find, meaning, purpose & love, replete with cultural references that hit so hard, I found imagery from her book bouncing around in my head for days and…

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