SLAYER Frontman Tom Araya’s Sister JEANETTE ARAYA Releases Bloodline Memoir
September 1, 2015, 9 years ago
Slayer bassist/vocalist Tom Araya's sister, Jeanette Araya, has released her new book, Bloodline.
Says Jeanette: “After a very long struggle and painful experiences during these past few years… My dream came true. I am finally able to share my fathers life with all of you. He was a very courageous man with a beautiful smile.”
A book description reads: In 2002, Jeanette Araya unexpectedly lost her father. As her world crumbled and the darkness of grief surrounded her, Jeanette found solace in writing and sharing family stories with her siblings. Years later, Jeanette shares a touching, occasionally edgy, memoir that reflects back on her father, Javier Araya, and her family life growing up.
Through a chronological retelling, Araya returns to her father's origins and early life in Chile and continues through the family's eventual emigration from Chile to a new life in Los Angeles. Araya's anecdotes reveal her father's mid-life challenges as he began an internal struggle that soon led him to a different purpose of serving God. While her father battled to support his family by any means necessary, Araya details how her brother ventured into the heavy-metal music scene, causing new tensions in the family as her father grappled between honoring his faith and feeling proud of his son's success.
Bloodline shares a heartwarming, emotionally-charged remembrance of a Chilean man's journey and the family who loved him as his life comes full circle from his upbringing to his final moments on Earth.
