Every Other Weekend
Coming of Age with Two Different Dads
Winner of the Firebird Award in the nonfiction category
Anthony’s father, Gerald Mohr, is a well-known radio actor before slipping to the Hollywood B-list thanks to the advent of television. Accepting the lead in a dying Swedish TV series, he falls for the script girl and divorces Mohr’s mother, who goes on to meet and marry another divorced person, credit card industry pioneer Stanley Dashew.
As his stepfather’s career rises and his biological father’s eases downward, Anthony tries to find his place. One weekend he’s sailing on his stepfather’s fifty-eight-foot catamaran; the next, his Swedish stepmother tells him that they’re poor. Coming of age in a time when divorce is rare and viewed as shocking, Anthony lives at the edges of what others regard as a dream world, a place where reality and fantasy blend, maps lead to the homes of the stars, and obstacles abound.
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Essays
Private Entrance: Halfway Down the Stairs
The Only Child at the Party; The Los Angeles Review
On the Five, at Ten; The Coachella Review
Master Absence List; Whistling Shade
We’ve Got Sweaters; The Writing Disorder
The Last Honors Class; Glint Journal
The Fairest of the Fair; Streetlight Magazine
The Wonderful World of Beverly Hills; Mason Street Review
A Simple Eviction Case; bioStories
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