![]() ![]() Home Is Burning, published this month and due to be made into a film, dives deep into the pain and grief of caring for a father who slowly wastes away, and a mother who hovers close to death. “It’d tear the balls off the thing if they made it PG-13.” Marshall shakes his head and gives a faint smile. Photograph: Gary Neuenschwander/Suppliedĭan Marshall sips an iced coffee under a Los Angeles sun and mulls the notion of Hollywood sanitising his memoir, the story of how he and his siblings dealt with terminally ill parents during an anguished year in the Mormon capital of Salt Lake City. ![]() (Left to right): Dan, Michelle, Tiffany, Bob, Chelsea, Debi, Greg. ![]() The Marshall family on 22 September 2008, the day of Bob’s death. From The Guradian Home Is Burning: the profanity-laced terminal illness memoir with fart jokesĭan Marshall’s book about his father’s death – while his mother was stricken with cancer – is possibly the most scatalogical memoir of its kind ever, and now Hollywood has come knocking ![]()
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