What Lisa Brennan-Jobs wants you to know about her father

In passage after passage of Small Fry, Mr. Jobs is vicious to his daughter and those around her. Now, in the days before the book is released, Ms. Brennan-Jobs is fearful that it will be received as a tell-all expos, and not the more nuanced portrait of a family she intended. She worries that the reaction will be about a famous mans legacy rather than a young womans story that she will be erased again, this time in her own memoir. ... Ms. Brennan-Jobss forgiveness is one thing. Whats tricky is that she wants the reader to forgive Mr. Jobs, too. And she knows that could be a problem.

Have I failed? she asked, in one of our conversations.