The title’s pretty self explanatory, it’s a memoir of grieving a father who had all kinds of problems. It’s devastating:

My father died in a hotel room, having been evicted from every apartment he ever had, and  fired from every job he ever had, and having alienated every single person he might stay with. It took the management a while to realize that he wasn’t coming out of his room, and it took a while for the police to locate anyone who knew him.