The Most Human: Reconciling with My Father, Leonard Nimoy
“Adam Nimoy has written about the challenges growing up with his famous father and about their estrangement later in life. The fact that Leonard and Adam found a way to rebuild their relationship should resonate with anyone who struggles with difficult family dynamics.”George Takei

“Engaging and immensely relatable, while at the same time offering deeply profound insights into Adam Nimoy’s personal relationships, particularly with his famous father." Eugene Roddenberry Jr., CEO of Roddenberry Entertainment 

While the tabloids and fan publications portrayed the Nimoys as a “close family,” to his son Adam, Leonard Nimoy was a total stranger.
The actor was as inscrutable as the iconic half-Vulcan science officer he portrayed on Star Trek, even to those close to him.
Now, his son’s poignant memoir explores their complicated relationship and how it informed his views on marriage, parenting, and later, sobriety. Despite their differences, both men ventured down parallel paths: marriages leading to divorce, battling addiction, and finding recovery. Most notably, both men struggled to take the ninth step in their AA journey: to make amends with each other.
Discover how the son of Spock learned to navigate this tumultuous relationship, from Shabbat dinners to basement AA meetings, and how he was finally able to reconcile with his father—and with himself.

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The Most Human: Reconciling with My Father, Leonard Nimoy
“Adam Nimoy has written about the challenges growing up with his famous father and about their estrangement later in life. The fact that Leonard and Adam found a way to rebuild their relationship should resonate with anyone who struggles with difficult family dynamics.”George Takei

“Engaging and immensely relatable, while at the same time offering deeply profound insights into Adam Nimoy’s personal relationships, particularly with his famous father." Eugene Roddenberry Jr., CEO of Roddenberry Entertainment 

While the tabloids and fan publications portrayed the Nimoys as a “close family,” to his son Adam, Leonard Nimoy was a total stranger.
The actor was as inscrutable as the iconic half-Vulcan science officer he portrayed on Star Trek, even to those close to him.
Now, his son’s poignant memoir explores their complicated relationship and how it informed his views on marriage, parenting, and later, sobriety. Despite their differences, both men ventured down parallel paths: marriages leading to divorce, battling addiction, and finding recovery. Most notably, both men struggled to take the ninth step in their AA journey: to make amends with each other.
Discover how the son of Spock learned to navigate this tumultuous relationship, from Shabbat dinners to basement AA meetings, and how he was finally able to reconcile with his father—and with himself.

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The Most Human: Reconciling with My Father, Leonard Nimoy

The Most Human: Reconciling with My Father, Leonard Nimoy

by Adam Nimoy
The Most Human: Reconciling with My Father, Leonard Nimoy

The Most Human: Reconciling with My Father, Leonard Nimoy

by Adam Nimoy

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“Adam Nimoy has written about the challenges growing up with his famous father and about their estrangement later in life. The fact that Leonard and Adam found a way to rebuild their relationship should resonate with anyone who struggles with difficult family dynamics.”George Takei

“Engaging and immensely relatable, while at the same time offering deeply profound insights into Adam Nimoy’s personal relationships, particularly with his famous father." Eugene Roddenberry Jr., CEO of Roddenberry Entertainment 

While the tabloids and fan publications portrayed the Nimoys as a “close family,” to his son Adam, Leonard Nimoy was a total stranger.
The actor was as inscrutable as the iconic half-Vulcan science officer he portrayed on Star Trek, even to those close to him.
Now, his son’s poignant memoir explores their complicated relationship and how it informed his views on marriage, parenting, and later, sobriety. Despite their differences, both men ventured down parallel paths: marriages leading to divorce, battling addiction, and finding recovery. Most notably, both men struggled to take the ninth step in their AA journey: to make amends with each other.
Discover how the son of Spock learned to navigate this tumultuous relationship, from Shabbat dinners to basement AA meetings, and how he was finally able to reconcile with his father—and with himself.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780915864737
Publisher: Chicago Review Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 06/04/2024
Pages: 272
Product dimensions: 6.20(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.50(d)

About the Author

Adam Nimoy is a graduate of UC Berkeley and Loyola Law School. After seven years in entertainment law, he left to pursue a directing career. Nimoy has directed over forty-five hours of network television, as well as a critically acclaimed documentary film about his father, For the Love of Spock (2016), an official selection at the Tribeca Film Festival. He was featured in the New York Times article "To Boldly Explore Jewish Roots of Star Trek" and he published a Father's Day piece about his relationship with his father for the Boston Globe. He is the author of My Incredibly Wonderful, Miserable Life and has been in 12-step recovery for twenty years. He lives in Los Angeles.

Table of Contents

Part I

In the Beginning

1. The Sins of Our Fathers

2. Spock and Spidey

3. That’s How It’s Done

4. A Castle of Our Own

5. The Road of Happy Destiny

6. The El Greco

7. Pause When Agitated

8. You’ll Love My Mother

9. My Higher Power

10. Babysitting the Babysitter

11. Working the Program

12. Double Vision

13. Beware the Receptionist

14. Event Horizon

15. It Could Be Cancer

16. Conversations with Maddy

17. Being Seen

18. Goodbye Forever

Part II

Things Change

19. There Are No Accidents in Recovery

20. Pause When Really Agitated

21. Vlad, the Impaler

22. My Hollywood Movie Shoot

23. A Page from My Book

24. The Dick Cheney Desk Set

25. COPD

26. My Cinnamon Girl

27. My Friend Justin

28. Talk to Him

29. The Clash

30. Goodbye Clarkson Road

31. Bread and Roses

32. I Think I’ll Get Married

33. Are You My Mother?

34. Distress Sale

Part III

The Dad I Needed

35. It’s Good to See You

36. There’s More to the Picture

37. Waiting for Martha

38. Looking for Martha

39. Star Trek X, The Frantic Search for Spock

40. Boys from Boston

41. Half a Century Icon

42. Honor Thy Father

43. A Home and a Dump

44. The Book of Jonah
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