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Spiegel & Grau
March 2013
On Sale: February 26, 2013
224 pages
ISBN: 0812993241
EAN: 9780812993240
Kindle: B009JU6TYS
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Non-Fiction Memoir
A haunting, unforgettable mother-daughter story for a new
generation—the debut of a blazing new lyrical voice Domenica Ruta grew up in a working-class, unforgiving town
north of Boston, in a trash-filled house on a dead-end road
surrounded by a river and a salt marsh. Her mother, Kathi, a
notorious local figure, was a drug addict and sometimes
dealer whose life swung between welfare and riches, and
whose highbrow taste was at odds with her hardscrabble life.
And yet she managed, despite the chaos she created, to
instill in her daughter a love of stories. Kathi frequently
kept Domenica home from school to watch such classics as the
Godfather movies and everything by Martin Scorsese
and Woody Allen, telling her, “This is more important. I
promise. You’ll thank me later.” And despite the fact
that
there was not a book to be found in her household, Domenica
developed a love of reading, which helped her believe that
she could transcend this life of undying grudges,
self-inflicted misfortune, and the crooked moral code that
Kathi and her cohorts lived by. With or Without You is the story of Domenica
Ruta’s
unconventional coming of age—a darkly hilarious chronicle of
a misfit ’90s youth and the necessary and painful act
of
breaking away, and of overcoming her own addictions and
demons in the process. In a brilliant stylistic feat, Ruta
has written a powerful, inspiring, compulsively readable,
and finally redemptive story about loving and leaving.
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