Small Fry

By Lisa Brennan-Jobs,

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Vogue's Best Books of the Year, 2018
Sunday Times' Best Memoirs of the Year, 2018
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A frank, smart and captivating memoir by the daughter of Apple founder Steve Jobs.

Born on a farm and named in…

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Lisa Brennan-Jobs is the daughter of Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple, and one of the wealthiest men in the world. This didn’t make him an attentive, loving father. Lisa was regularly ignored, and deliberately left out of his new family (he never married her mother). Her determination to win his love failed, and she blamed herself for his lack of acceptance. She longed for reassurance that never materialized. Lisa had to face the unwanted reality: “He doesn’t love me.” When Jobs was dying from pancreatic cancer, with tears, he owned that none of this was her fault. In spite of…

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