His no-holds-barred admissions of his mistakes and triumphs are revealing and engaging.The book is also peppered with surprises." - San Francisco Book Review, Vanity Fair, September 2016 " I Am Brian Wilson slipstreams through the past like a message in a bottle.It has moments of personal testimony that are poignant and indelible." New York Post, 8/11/16 "1960s Beach Boy on mental illness, sorrow, drugs, destabilization, demons, turbulence and discord." Booklist, 9/1/16 "Music journalist Greenman helps keep this meandering memoir coherent and poignant." CNN.com, 8/24/16 "Plenty of authors have written about this Beach Boy and now he'll get his say." Rolling Stone, 9/8/16 "Wilson tells his own story: his battles with his abusive father, the pressure to score hits in the Sixties, and his long struggle with mental illness." Billboard, 9/3/16 "Wilson delves into his battle with mental illness and how he created the band's pioneering sound." Publishers Weekly, 9/12/16 " charming and powerfully written memoir that will engage a readership beyond the multitude of Beach Boys fans.Despite his fame and success, Wilson comes off as a genuinely modest and gentle soul.Wilson's emotional authenticity is beguiling as he takes readers deeply into his mind, voices and all, to describe his unique manifestation of musical genius." No Depression, 9/16/16 "Wilson's memoir offers a more sober glance at the spiritual and physical forces that haunt artists and that often drive them to produce the beautiful, sad, and relentlessly affecting music we often embrace.Wilson's memoir eventually grabs us at a deeper level than Love's. "Candid and tragic, yet in the end exquisitely triumphant and love affirming, I am Brian Wilson is the last (and only) word on Brian's all-too-written-about and over-analyzed past."- Elmore, 10/25/16, " tells it his way, and that makes it better than any history I've read of the Beach Boys to date.
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