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=== Book Two: ''Lightning Crashes'' (2021) ===

{{Infobox book
| name          = Don't Call Me Jupiter — Book Two "Lightning Crashes"
| subtitle      = Memoir of a Reluctant Hippie Kid
| author        = Tom J. Bross
| publisher     = Independently published
| pub_date      = 2021
| isbn          = 979-8499401965
| genre         = Memoir
}}

The second volume fast-forwards to '''1996''', when a '''suspicious death''' within the family sends shockwaves through the now-disbanded Bross family and forces them back together. Tom, described as "the quintessential lifetime bachelor," is thrust back into the chaos of his family's world as they scramble to determine what happened and care for the two young children left behind.

The central mystery of the book—whether the death was the result of murder, drugs, abuse, or some other cause—gives the narrative a dramatic urgency absent from the first volume. The book grapples with the long-term consequences of choices made during the 1970s and examines whether the cycle of abandonment that defined the family can be broken.

'''Themes:''' Cycles of dysfunction, grief, family crisis, accountability, forgiveness, legacy.