Steve Jobs' eldest daughter, Lisa Brennan-Jobs, has decided to publish her own memoir. Her work is called "Small Fry" and should hit bookstore shelves overseas next month. However, a few excerpts from the upcoming book have already been published, and we bring them to you thanks to the Vanity Fair server.air We can imagine. The website has published a sample from the book in which Lisa Brennan-Jobs confesses to her complicated relationship with her famous father. She describes both her early childhood and the last days of Jobs' life.
Lisa Brennan-Jobs was born in 1978 to Steve Jobs and Chrisann Brennan. It is well known that Jobs initially denied paternity. Jobs had virtually nothing to do with Lisa until she was two years old. After he had to take paternity tests and began donating to Lisa, the two of themoneLisa does not forget this first meeting in her book, which took place in Menlo Park, California.
"Do you know who I am?" he asked. He brushed his hair out of his eyes. I was three years old, I didn't know anything. "I am your father." ("Like he was Darth Vader," my mother later remarked when she told me this story.). "I'm one of the most important people you'll ever know," he said.
Jobs then began to visit Lisa more often. They roller skated together, drove her around in his Porsche, went out to dinners and did a lot of other things, but their relationship was still troubled. One day, Lisa asked her father about his Porsche - she had heard a rumor that he would replace it every time the car got scratched. But she didn't exactly get a nice response.
"You don't understand," he said. “Do you understand? Nothing. You don't understand anything." Did he mean his car or something else, bigger? I did not know. His voice hurt me, sharp, in my chest.
In another of the demos, Lisa Brennan-Jobs explains how thinking that the computer Lisa was named after her caused her to develop a closer relationship with her father. But once she asked him if that was really the case.
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"No," Jobs replied. A little later, however, he changed his mind. U2's Bono asked him during one lunch together: "So - the computer Lisa is named after her?". There was a pause. I steeled myself and prepared for his answer. My father took a long look at his plate and then back at Bono. "Yes, names," he replied. I was sitting in my chair. "I thought so," Bono said. I studied my father's face. What has changed? Why did he suddenly admit it now, after all these years? That's when I thought - of course he's named after me. His lying suddenly seemed absurd to me. I suddenly felt a new strength.
The book from which the samples come can already be pre-ordered at Amazonu. The official release date is September 4th.
