Montana Made - by Garth Gerhart (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

A brutally funny memoir set against the Montana landscape, perfect for Gen X men and readers navigating grief, midlife, and mental health with honesty and humor.

What happens when the life you built stops making sense? One man finds out the hard, funny, and painfully honest way.

When Garth Gerhart receives word that his estranged father has died, he boards a plane to Montana carrying more than a suitcase--he carries decades of silence, regret, and questions without answers. What begins as an obligation to bury the past turns into an unflinching confrontation with it.

Montana Made is a brutally funny and achingly honest memoir about what it means to come undone in the middle of life. With the sharp wit of a Mad Magazine humorist and the raw candor of a man in free fall, Gerhart wrestles with grief, depression, family, and the fragile rules we cling to just to keep going.

Along winding highways and in awkward family reunions, through therapy sessions and late-night breakdowns, Gerhart discovers that healing rarely looks heroic. Sometimes it looks like failure. Sometimes it looks like laughter. Sometimes it looks like finally daring to turn around and face where you came from.

For anyone who has ever wondered how to keep living when the life you built no longer makes sense, Montana Made is a testament to the mess, the madness, and the small mercies that can still bring us home.

About the Author

Garth Gerhart is an American humorist best known for his writing and illustrations featured in Mad Magazine. From an early age, Garth was passionate about storytelling. As he grew older, his focus shifted from mere entertainment to engaging and enlightening audiences about the human experience. Amid professional and personal challenges, Garth uses humor and thought-provoking perspectives to share his own experiences with mental illness, offering a cathartic way to heal while inspiring those struggling with loss and grief. He currently lives in the suburbs of Maryland with his wife, five children, and three dogs.