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Leave Out the Tragic Parts : A Grandfather's Search for a Boy Lost to Addiction by Dave Kindred (2021, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherPublic Affairs

ISBN-101541757068

ISBN-139781541757066

eBay Product ID (ePID)11050398039

Product Key Features

Book TitleLeave Out the Tragic Parts : a Grandfather's Search for a Boy Lost to Addiction

Number of Pages256 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicParenting / Grandparenting, Sociology / General, Personal Memoirs, Psychopathology / Addiction

Publication Year2021

GenreFamily & Relationships, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, Psychology

AuthorDave Kindred

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.2 in

Item Weight13.2 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.8 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2020-008031

Reviews" Leave Out the Tragic Parts is an emotional and psychological voyage into the psyche of a grief-stricken grandfather.... it must have required a great amount of courage and intestinal fortitude on the part of the writer...a home run."-- The New York Journal of Books, "The title of Dave Kindred's astonishing book is precisely what he did not do. A world-class reporter used every ounce of his journalistic skills to investigate a story-the life and death of a beloved grandchild-that most of us would find daunting. But Kindred tells the story truly and with love."-- David Maraniss, author of A Good American Family: The Red Scare and My Father, "A love letter. . . Kindred writes with an impressive combination of journalistic detachment and grandfatherly love . . .He approaches a difficult story with love and curiosity rather than sentimentality."-- Kirkus Reviews, " Leave Out the Tragic Parts serves as both an insightful look into the transient world of freewheeling American drifters while also being a vulnerable and open exploration of what it means to be a family watching a loved one struggling with addiction. Kindred's frequent thoughts of 'what if?' will resonate with many."-- Library Journal

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal362.29092

SynopsisThis extraordinary investigation of the death of the author's grandson yields a powerful memoir of addiction, grief, and the stories we choose to tell our families and ourselves. Jared Kindred left his home and family at the age of eighteen, choosing to wander across America on freight train cars and live on the street. Addicted to alcohol most of his short life, and withholding the truth from many who loved him, he never found a way to survive. Through this ordeal, Dave Kindred's love for his grandson has never wavered. Leave Out the Tragic Parts is not merely a reflection on love and addiction and loss. It is a hard-won work of reportage, meticulously reconstructing the life Jared chose for himself--a life that rejected the comforts of civilization in favor of a chance to roam free. Kindred asks painful but important questions about the lies we tell to get along, and what binds families together or allows them to fracture. Jared's story ended in tragedy, but the act of telling it is an act of healing and redemption. This is an important book on how to love your family, from a great writer who has lived its lessons., Jared Kindred left his home and family at the age of eighteen, choosing a life of riding train cars and making friends on the street. He was an addict for most of his short life, drinking far too much and lying about it; he was ultimately killed by an overdose.Yet he inspired the deepest love of Dave Kindred's life. Leave Out the Tragic Parts is not merely a reflection on love and addiction and loss. It is a hard-won, and remarkably fair-minded, account of the life Jared chose for himself and the colorful people around him--people with names like Puzzles, Stray, and Booze Cop; people with stories to tell.Kindred asks painful but important questions about the lies we tell to get along, and what binds families together or allows them to fracture. Jared's story ended in tragedy, but the act of telling it is an act of healing and redemption. This is an important book on how to love your family, from a great writer who has lived its lessons.

LC Classification NumberHV5805.K56K56 2021