Harrison Scott Key was born in Memphis, but he grew up in Mississippi, among pious Bible-reading women and men who either shot things or got women pregnant. At the center of his world was his larger-than-life fathera hunter, a fighter, a football coach, a man better suited to living in a remote frontier wilderness of the nineteenth century than contemporary America, with all its progressive ideas and paved roads and lack of armed duels. He was a great man, and he taught me many things: how to fight and work and cheat and how to pray to Jesus about it, how to kill things with guns and knives and, if necessary, with hammers.Harrison, with his love of books and excessive interest in hugging, couldnt have been less like Pop, and when it became clear that he was not able to kill anything very well, or otherwise make his father happy, he resolved to become everything his father was not: an actor, a Presbyterian, and a doctor of philosophy. But when it was time to settle down and start a family of his own, Harrison began to view his father in a new light and realizedfor better and for worsehow much like his old man hed become.Sly, heartfelt, and tirelessly hilarious, The Worlds Largest Man is an unforgettable memoirthe story of a boys struggle to reconcile himself with an impossibly outsize role model, and a grown mans reckoning with the father it took him a lifetime to understand.