{"id":39216,"date":"2024-05-18T00:14:51","date_gmt":"2024-05-18T04:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/?p=39216"},"modified":"2024-05-18T00:14:51","modified_gmt":"2024-05-18T04:14:51","slug":"hard-copy-the-most-human-by-adam-nimoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/?p=39216","title":{"rendered":"Hard Copy: The Most Human by Adam Nimoy"},"content":{"rendered":"

This summer, Adam Nimoy\u2014yes, THAT\"\"<\/a> Nimoy\u2014shares moving, behind the scenes details in his memoir, THE MOST HUMAN: Reconciling with My Father,Leonard Nimoy (June 4, 2024; Chicago Review Press).<\/p>\n

While the tabloids and fan publications portrayed the Nimoys as a \u201cclose family,\u201d 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\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

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All who love a good story–as well as Star Trek fans everywhere–will be eager to discover how the son of Spock learned to navigate this tumultuous relationship\u2014from Shabbat dinners to basement AA meetings\u2014and how he was finally able to reconcile with his father\u2014and with himself.<\/p>\n

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Adam is appearing live in select cities this summer to discuss the book\u2014including Los Angeles, New York City, Long Island, Ridgewood, NJ, Portland, OR, Las Vegas and Boston. More information about Adam\u2019s appearances and the book is available at his website: www.adamnimoy.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This summer, Adam Nimoy\u2014yes, THAT Nimoy\u2014shares moving, behind the scenes details in his memoir, THE MOST HUMAN: Reconciling with My Father,Leonard Nimoy (June 4, 2024; Chicago Review Press). While the tabloids and fan publications portrayed the Nimoys as a \u201cclose … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[5993,11175,11177,11178,11179,1192,1193,17,2954,11176],"class_list":["post-39216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hard-copy","tag-actor","tag-adam-nimoy","tag-autobiography","tag-director","tag-father","tag-leonard-nimoy","tag-mr-spock","tag-star-trek","tag-star-trek-the-original-series","tag-the-most-human"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39219,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39216\/revisions\/39219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}