Frank Zappa’s daughter on her wildly inappropriate upbringing and its aftermath
oon Unit Zappa recently told Mojo magazine that writing this eye-popping memoir was like “spelunking in hell”. As her tale of growing up in a rock’n’roll family wends on, you wonder how the eldest child of LA musicianand his manager Gail survived decades of deeply iffy parental behaviour and the complex dynamic it seeded between her and her creatively named siblings.
The household was chaotic, with regular mealtimes a rarity; Frank and Gail – the kids used their first names – were “pagan absurdists” who eschewed alcohol and hard drugs but made use of Ouija boards and put “orgy artwork” on the walls. Reliving the height of the loopiness – when these two solipsistic parents were raising four small people in a tableau populated by liggers, fortune tellers and mistresses in Germany and New Zealand – must have dredged up a lot of semi-processed trauma for Moon.
Moon stumbled through childhood trying to hold things together, ignoring all the sex noises, shouting and unreliability
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