King Shit of Fuck Mountain

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A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir, Dr. Brandon Day takes us on his lifetime odyssey of hellish introspection and painstaking self-discovery as he battles homelessness, addiction, bosses, teachers, cable companies, neighbors, his children, and his ex-wife to become “King Shit of Fuck Mountain.” By the time Dr. Brandon Day was six-years he had become addicted to Nintendo. He played games like Mike Tyson’s Punchout and The Legend of Zelda to cope with his sadistic, overbearing parents who forced him to perform unthinkable acts such as brushing his teeth before bed and doing his homework. As he grew older, Dr. Brandon Day realized that he was not only the victim of childhood trauma, but he was also the rightful heir to the throne of Fuck Mountain and destined to become King Shit. But fulfilling his destiny and becoming King Shit required crafting the perfect resilience narrative. He had to prove to himself and the rest of the world that he was a king, so he set out on a hero’s journey to deal with all the dumb bullshit he had to put up with at the hands of not only his parents, but other family members, friends, co-workers, teachers, wives, ex-wives, bosses, cable companies, banks, and even his own children.However, the truth was more complicated. After he graduated from college, Dr. Brandon’s mom and dad kept breaking his balls about smoking too much pot and finding a fucking job already. If only it were that easy. It wasn’t long before they would eventually kick him out and even force him to pay for his own car insurance when he was just a young, scared, 26-years-old little boy.Dr. Brandon learns to confront his own past filled with many secrets: a marijuana stash he hid in his sock drawer all through high school, phone calls from debt collectors who use strange numbers to try to trick him into picking up, dozens of lost car keys and wallets he never found, and sometimes even peeing in the kitchen sink when he is drunk, and no one is home. All of which led to the unbecoming desperation of a 43-year-old man being forced to a reckoning with his long-awaited destiny. Although Dr. Brandon would go on to graduate from college and become a high school guidance counselor, he found that sweet-ass summer vacations and a strong teacher’s union didn’t necessarily mean safety from judgment of his parents or the meritocracy. Both a chronicle of the American Dream and an indictment of it, this searing debut memoir exposes the price we pay for the promise of a bright future. Dr. Brandon’s story challenges our ideas of what it means to overcome and become King Fuck of Shit Mountain.