Brother & sister: a memoir (First edition.)

A heartfelt memoir about the actress Diane Keaton's relationship with her younger brother, and a poignant exploration of the divergent paths siblings' lives can take.

When they were children in the suburbs of Los Angeles in the 1950s, Diane Keaton and her younger brother, Randy, were best friends and companions.

Their mother captured their American-dream childhoods in her diaries, and on camera.

But as they grew up, Randy became troubled, then reclusive.

By the time he reached adulthood, he was divorced, an alcoholic, a man who couldn't hold on to full-time work.

Now Diane is delving into the nuances of their shared, and separate, pasts to confront the difficult question of why and how Randy ended up living his life on 'the other side of normal'.