By the time he was seven, Flea’s parents divorced and his father moved back to Australia, causing the boy to feel abandoned and unmoored. When he was five, his father’s work necessitated the family move to Rye, a northern suburb of New York City. The first part of the story centers on impressionistic perceptions from his first four years of life in Melbourne, Australia, where he was born Michael Peter Balzary.
To capture the fractured nature of it, Flea divided his book into brief, blunt chapters, in the process creating a rhythm for his prose as curt and distinct as his bass playing. “Eventually, I became entranced with the idea of getting under the narrative, to find out the ‘why’ of my early life,” he said.
“I thought I would just write about the band because who would be arrogant enough to think anyone would care about my childhood?” he said.īut, given the amount of violence, drug use and sometimes useful adventure in his past, this clearly wasn’t just any childhood. Not that this was Flea’s original game plan.
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