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Also by Darin Strauss:

Half A Life, September 2010
Hardcover
More Than It Hurts You, July 2009
Paperback
More Than It Hurts You, June 2008
Hardcover

HALF A LIFE
By: Darin Strauss

Mcsweeneys Books
September 2010
On Sale: September 15, 2010
204 pages
ISBN: 1934781703
EAN: 9781934781708
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir

“Half my life ago, I killed a girl.”

So begins Darin Strauss’ Half a Life, the true story of how one outing in his father’s Oldsmobile resulted in the death of a classmate and the beginning of a different, darker life for the author. We follow Strauss as he explores his startling past—collision, funeral, the queasy drama of a high-stakes court case—and what starts as a personal tale of a tragic event opens into the story of how to live with a very hard fact: we can try our human best in the crucial moment, and it might not be good enough. Half a Life is a nakedly honest, ultimately hopeful examination of guilt, responsibility, and living with the past.

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Diane Rehm Show - NPR - November 22, 2010