Jesus, My Father, The CIA, and Me Review

"When I first discovered the grainy picture in my mother's desk-me as a towheaded two year old sitting in what I remember was a salmon-orange-stained lifeboat-I was overwhelmed by the feeling that the boy in the boat was not waving and laughing at the person snapping the photo as much as he was frantically trying to get the attention of the man I am today. The boy was beckoning me to join him on a voyage through the harrowing straits of memory. He was gambling that if we survived the passage, we might discover an ocean where the past would become the wind at our back rather than a driving gale to the nose of our boat. This book is the record of that voyage."  

"At the age of sixteen, Ian Morgan Cron was told by his mother that his father, a motion picture executive, also worked for the CIA in Europe. This astonishing revelation, coupled with his father's dark struggles with alcoholism, upended the world of a boy struggling to become a man. Decades later, as he faces his own personal demons, Ian realizes the only way to find peace is to voyage back through a childhood marked by extremes--privilege and hardship, violence and tenderness, truth and deceit--that he's spent years trying to forget. In this surprisingly funny and forgiving memoir, Ian reminds us that no matter how different the pieces may be, in the end we are all cut from the same cloth, stitched by faith into an exquisite quilt of grace. "

Jesus, My Father, The CIA, and Me: A Memoir. . . of Sorts by Ian Morgan Cron was an incredible book about the author's experience as a little boy growing up with an alcoholic father who also happened to be employed by the CIA. The "plot" of this story sounded so much like a good, dramatic movie to me at first and that's why I really liked this book!

The book details Ian's own struggles while growing up and forgiving his father and it is really well written and I loved the whole memoir! Ian has had a lot of faith in Christ and I would expect a lot of faithful content in this book since it is from Thomas Nelson, but the memoir itself was simply greatly inspiring to me and made me realize how lucky I have been, growing up in my family.

A very nice book overall, certainly an interesting and unique book to read!

Disclosure: This book was provided to me by Thomas Nelson for review.