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With or Without You: A Memoir

By Domenica , Ruta

Book information

Publisher
Spiegel & Grau
Year
2013
ISBN
9780679645023, 0812993241, 0679645020, 9781743095584, 1743095589
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (1947598 bytes)
Edition
1st ed
Pages
210 pages\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Social Scientists & PsyDomenica;Children of drug addicts -- Massachusetts

Description

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 yet she managed, despite the chaos she created, to instill in her daughter a love of stories. 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 and the necessary and painful act of breaking away, and of overcoming her own addictions and demons in the process.

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