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After their parents divorce in the 1970's, Andre Dubus III and his three siblings grew up with their exhausted working mother in a depressed Massachusetts mill town saturated with drugs and crime. To protect himself and those he loved from street violence, Andre learned to use his fists so well that he was even scared of himself. He was on a fast track to getting killed, or killing someone else, or to beatings-for-pay as a boxer. Nearby, his father,...
2) Priestdaddy
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In this memoir, the author recounts emblematic moments from her youth in a family led by an unusual Catholic priest--an ill-fated family hunting trip, an abortion clinic sit-in where her father was arrested, and her involvement in a cult-like Catholic youth group--with scenes that chronicle the 9 month adventure she and her husband had in her parents' household after a decade of living on their own. She pivots from the raunchy to the sublime, from...
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"Beloved writer Samantha Irby has returned to the printed page for her much-anticipated, sidesplitting fourth book following her 2020 breakout, Wow, no thank you, a Vintage Books Original. The success of Irby's career has taken her to new heights. She fields calls with job offers from Hollywood and walks the red carpet with the iconic ladies of Sex and the City. Finally, she has made it. But, behind all that new-found glam, Irby is just trying to...
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