The My Best Friend's Funeral

<p><strong>There's a certain kind of lost a boy feels in this world without a father. Tim felt it. I felt it. And we realized our only way out would be together.</strong></p><p>In an openhearted memoir of faith on the fringe Roger Thompson meditates on the life and premature death of his best friend and business partner Tim Garrety cofounder of Skate Street Ventura.</p><p>Roger and Tim's twenty-year friendship was forged in the surf and on the streets of 1980s California. Together they hazarded countless waves and every rite of passage--from guitars to girls to God--and influenced the lives of thousands of skateboarders musicians surfers and otherwise disconnected youth in the process.</p><p>With unrestrained honesty and a punk-rock soundtrack <em>My Best Friend's Funeral </em>is a memoir of friendship doubt surfing and the complex relationships between fathers and sons. If life has ever left you feeling abandoned--or if you simply prefer a rock show to a sermon--<em>My Best Friend's Funeral</em> is a memoir you won't want to miss and a confirmation that you are never alone.</p>