Before filming a PBS episode of Who Do You Think You Are, Alan Cumming's father revealed that he was not, in fact, his biological father. Alternating between the past and details of his father's emotional and physical abuse and his present day search for his roots, Cumming's memoir is poignant, searing, surprising, and absolutely riveting.

I listened to this on audiobook, which I highly recommend as Cumming is a natural story teller and narrator.