“For him, I was a blot on a spectacular ascent,” she writes, “as our story did not fit with the narrative of greatness and virtue he might have wanted for himself. Lisa Brennan-Jobs drops into the Damn Library to discuss Small Fry, her coming-of-age memoir about growing up the daughter of Christian Brennan and Steve. In Small Fry, Brennan-Jobs moves back and forth in time, balancing her memories of Jobs often tough treatment of her (denying paternity, denying her adequate financial support, denying her the warmth and attention every child deserves) with his unpredictable moments of openness and generosity. The 40-year-old also recalls how her mother, Chrisann Brennan, who had a five year on-off relationship with the tech visionary, supplemented her welfare parents until she was aged two by cleaning and waitressing, writing: “My father didn’t help.”
Overall, a good story, but with flaws, not enough about Steve Jobs to matter generally, and not enough alignment of values. My father is Steve Jobs,” Jobs' daughter also told her school friends, proudly telling them about the Apple Lisa desktop computer. Small Fry by Lisa Brennan-Jobs is an autobiography presented as a coming-of-age story written for the target-audience of Steve Jobs fans and people interested in the myth surrounding the Apple creator who died not long ago. Lisa Brennan-Jobs, who the Apple founder had denied was his daughter, also recalls him telling her “you’re getting nothing” in a disagreement over inheriting his prized Porsche, she writes in her soon-to-be-released memoir Small Fry.īrennan-Jobs also chronicles in an excerpt of her memoir published Vanity Fair magazine, how her father was sued for child-support payments, claimed he was sterile in a deposition and lied about naming Lisa, one of the first personal computers released by Apple, after her. Steve Jobs told his daughter she “smelled like a toilet” on his deathbed, a new revelatory memoir detailing their troubled relationship has revealed. In the opening pages of Lisa Brennan-Jobs’ graceful and emotionally raw new memoir, Small Fry, she describes visiting her ailing father, Apple founder Steve Jobs, in the final months of.
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