My Best Friend's Funeral

There's a certain kind of lost a boy feels in this world without a father. Tim felt it. I felt it. And we realized our only way out would be together.

In an openhearted memoir of faith on the fringe, Roger Thompson meditates on the life and premature death of his best friend and business partner, Tim Garrety, cofounder of Skate Street Ventura.

Roger and Tim's twenty-year friendship was forged in the surf and on the streets of 1980s California. Together they hazarded countless waves and every rite of passage--from guitars to girls to God--and influenced the lives of thousands of skateboarders, musicians, surfers, and otherwise disconnected youth in the process.

With unrestrained honesty and a punk-rock soundtrack, My Best Friend's Funeral is a memoir of friendship, doubt, surfing, and the complex relationships between fathers and sons. If life has ever left you feeling abandoned--or if you simply prefer a rock show to a sermon--My Best Friend's Funeral is a memoir you won't want to miss, and a confirmation that you are never alone.

Author: Roger W. Thompson
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Published: 11/04/2014
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 8.75h x 5.09w x 0.78d
ISBN: 9781400206131

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 11/01/2014 pg. 14