![]() For instance, both men raised families of four in New Jersey in the 1970s and early’80s. There are similarities between the real dad and the fiction dad. ![]() That said,Ībram Green is a monster and my father is not.” “I don’t think any novel is ever pure fiction,” Braff says over tea at a Rockridge cafe. And in “Unthinkable Thoughts,” the dad, Abram Green, is a smothering nightmare mixture of family pride, horrifying neediness and abusive egotism. ![]() In “Garden State,” the father is a cold and distant psychotherapist who has had his son on depression medication since childhood. Unlike the fathers in Zach’s “Garden State” and Joshua’s just-published first novel, “The Unthinkable Thoughts of Jacob Green,” the elder Braff really is a good dad. ONE thing first-time novelist Joshua Braff will have to get used to is being asked about his family.įirst there’s little brother Zach Braff, star of the NBC sitcom “Scrubs” and writer/director of this summer’s sleeper hit movie “Garden State.” People always want to know about the famous sibling.Īnd then there’s Hal, the father of the Braff brood, which includes, in descending order, Adam, Joshua, Shoshana and Zach. ![]()
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