‘Fahrenheit-182: A Memoir,’ Mark Hoppus

Throughout his memoir Fahrenheit-182, Mark Hoppus is obsessed with the odds. He mentions, on no less than a dozen occasions, these very specific “one-in-a-million” chances — the odds of making something out of his life in the California desert, the odds of turning Blink-182 into one of the biggest bands in the world, the odds of beating cancer. He balanced blind confidence with a crippling sense of anxiety as he constantly breezed past his own expectations. Even in the moments when Hoppus is convinced he will be hauled away from the life he built for himself, he seems happy to have made it that far in the first place. And yet, through trauma and tragedy, he always brings himself back from the brink, living to fight another day and crack another tasteless joke on another Blink song. “One-in-a-million happens to me all the time,” Hoppus wrote. —L.P.