Ted Sploshelyubov, nicknamed Mr. Peanut, bears little resemblance to other Ivy League college graduates. He lives in a tiny apartment with Goldfarb the electric fish, sleeps among his scribblings—postmodern pretensions to literature—and hopes that one day he will write the great American novel. Ted, like any person, had parents. “There were” because his mother died, and his father... Ted has such a relationship with his father that it would be better not to have them at all. But one day, having learned that his father is dying of lung cancer, Ted moves to his father’s house, and events and revelations in his life increase a hundredfold. Father has only months left, and his condition is deteriorating as soon as his favorite baseball team, the Boston Red Sox, loses again. And it has been blowing for many years in a row. Ted arranges a personal theater for his father, staging the way out of his beloved team from a dead end and, at the same time, helping to beautifully complete the story of his difficult and sad life. A lively, infinitely humane book by actor, director, producer and writer David Duchovny - a novel about the elusive connection between children and parents, about quickly disappearing beauty, music, sports, literature. This is a book about everything real that is visible from under the plastic, advertising lights and pop music. And also about what is considered victory and success in a single human life, whose recognition is important, what makes sense to remember and what to cherish.