Robot Dreams and Suburban Nightmares

For Chris Bujold, every chapter of life begins with a movie. Every film unlocks a memory, revealing a personal story about growing up in suburban New Hampshire, navigating an imperfect family, becoming a husband and father, and ultimately facing unimaginable loss, all through the lens of 1980s and 1990s cinema and pop culture.

Robot Dreams and Suburban Nightmares is a cinematic coming-of age memoir told through the films that defined a generation, a life, and a childhood. Bujold writes with...