Lisa Brennan-Jobs, daughter of Apple's founder, Steve Jobs, published a fragment from her book, "Small Fry", which contains heartbreaking stories from her relationship with her father.
This is the first time Lisa talks about her father, who once refused fatherhood and refused to pay financial support for her. Jobs died in 2011, at the age of 56, of pancreatic cancer.
The fragment published in Vanity Fair's seance number begins with a description of the last days of Jobs from the perspective of a Buddhist monk. Jobs became a Buddhist when he was too young.
Lisa describes the weekend when she visited her sick father and tried to find her place between the stepfather and three half-siblings.
"I had given up on the idea of ??a major reunion, like in movies, but I kept on meeting anyway," she writes.
The fragment also speaks of Jobs's presence at the birth of the daughter in 1978 and the denial of paternity until a lawyer forced her to test a father and pay financial support.
Lisa stresses that Jobs's lawyers rushed the procedures to establish the value of financial support. All were finalized on December 8, 1980. Four days later, Apple became a public company and Steve Jobs, a wealthy man.
It shows that her father changed Porsche cars whenever they scratched a bit. Once, Lisa asked one of them to get rid of her.
"Leave you nothing," it is taught to have answered him. "Understand? Nothing. You will not get anything. "
Lisa adds that Jobs has never been generous, whether with money, food or words. She never had a normal relationship with her father and just wanted to be close to him.
"For him, I was just a stain in a spectacular success. My story did not match what it had in mind, "she writes. "My existence hampers work. For me it was the opposite. The closer I was to, the less I was ashamed of. He was part of the world and would bring me to light. "
Lisa uses the Apple Lisa computer, the forerunner of the Macintosh, as a metaphor of belonging to her father.
"You named her like me," she asked her father once. "No. Forgive me, "he said.
Later, however, Jobs invited him to a party with the whole family and together they visited Bono, the U2 leader.
Bono asked the same question as Jobs, did he name the computer behind his daughter. This time, he replied with "yes".
