Native State is memoir set in the 50s and early '60s that follows a young man attempting to escape the confines of his celebrity-filled alcoholic family in Hollywood, who chooses the life of a jazz drummer in bohemian Europe. The author wends his way through Tangier, Paris, Copenhagen and Barcelona as he comes to terms with his self-imposed exile, eventually returning to his ailing father in California. An elegantly crafted and engrossing memoir.