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Half a Life

By Darin Strauss

Book information

Publisher
McSweeney’s
Year
2010
ISBN
1934781703, 9781934781708
Language
english
Format
MOBI
Filesize
354 kB (362556 bytes)
Edition
First Edition
Pages
204\0
Time added
2017-05-31 06:47:59
Grief & Bereavement;Death & Grief;Self-Help;Author

Description

“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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