If it's not obvious from song titles like "Novocaine for the Soul" and "Cancer for the Cure," Eels mastermind Mark Oliver Everett (better known as E) didn't get a lot of hugs growing up. But his dad had a pretty good reason for being distant: Hugh Everett III was a misunderstood genius who formulated the long-maligned, but now increasingly accepted, "many-worlds interpretation" of quantum physics. Already a bestseller in the UK, E's recent memoir, Things the Grandchildren Should Know, wryly reflects on the man he knew primarily from journals and breakfast-table tirades while simultaneously exploring the author's own hilarious and unbelievably tragic travails as a '90s rock star.