Read an excerpt from KatyTurNBC's new memoir, Rough Draft: 'Every day brought the possibility of an explosion. His anger could be triggered by almost anything, but especially if he thought you were being weak or sad when he thought you should be happy'
Photo-Illustration: The Cut; Photo: Getty I once tried to make a list of the many things my dad threw at my mom in moments of rage. It included keys, plates, batteries, cell phones, two-way radios, and flight helmets. I’m not even counting palms and fists. Once she was wearing sunglasses when he hit her, driving shards of the lens into the soft skin around her eye socket. I walked into the bathroom to find my mother with a rag in her hand covered in blood, her face still oozing.
On one of our fancy vacations to Hawaii, when I was in seventh grade, I was moping around the way preteens do. I had my period. It was new and it made me emotional. I missed my friends. I worried they were doing fun stuff without me. When I was doing my nails on the floor of our hotel room and smudged a finger, I started weeping out of sheer adolescent confusion.I darted for the closest door as he lunged in my direction. It was a small bathroom in the luxury suite he was proud of that weekend.
Bob Tur was born in Los Angeles in 1960 after a pretty nineteen-year-old named Judy Offenberg met an already world-weary garment manufacturer named Jack Tur. Jack had already been married and divorced and fathered a child. As the story goes, Judy refused to marry him unless he cut ties with his first kid. He did.
She was born in Los Angeles in 1955 to a woman who dreamed of a career. Connie was born to a rich family of Greek immigrants in Florida in 1918. She traveled the world. To Cuba. To Paris. Back to Greece. She floated across the ocean on luxury liners, rumbled through Europe by train. There’s a picture of Connie in Egypt as a child on the back of a camel.
When I think about what might have been I think about my father’s mother. If anyone could have fixed things it was grandma Judy. Although we were never to call her that. “I’m too young to be a grandmother,” she’d say laughing, a cigarette dangling off her red painted lips and her hand combing through her platinum blonde bob.
I tried to tell myself that it wasn’t happening. That the machine was wrong. I just saw her last night. She was in the hospital and yes she said she was having a hard time breathing. But she looked alive. Not on the verge of death. She was only 57.
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