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And yet she managed, despite the chaos she created, to instill in her daughter a love of stories. I promise. 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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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY A haunting, unforgettable mother-daughter story for a new generation--the debut of a blazing new lyrical voice Look for special features inside. Join the Random House Reader's Circle for author chats and more. Domenica Ruta grew up in a working-class, unforgiving town rth of Boston, in a trash-filled house on a dead-end road surrounded by a river and a salt marsh. Her mother, Kathi, a torious 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 t 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. Praise for With or Without You A lumius, layered accomplishment. --The New York Times Book Review A singular new coming-of-age memoir traces one girl's twisting path up from mean streets (and parents) to the reflective life of a writer. . . . The burgeoning can of literary memoir . . . begets ather winner in Domenica Ruta's searing With or Without You. . . . [A] gloriously gutsy memory-work. --ElleStunning . . . comes across as a bleaker, funnier, R-rated version of The Glass Castle and marks the arrival of a blazing new voice in literature. --Entertainment WeeklyValiant and heartbreaking. --Bust Powerful . . . Ruta found an unconventional voice, a scary good mixture of erudition and hardened street smarts. Her writing is also, as they say in Danvers, wicked funny--though in her case wicked is more an adjective than an intensifier. . . . [With or Without You] hums with jangled energy and bristles with sharp edges. . . . Ruta writes with unflinching honesty. --Slate Bracingly funny and poignant. --The Boston Globe Exceedingly powerful. --Booklist

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Random House USA Inc, Spiegel & Grau
ISBN-10
0812983408
ISBN-13
9780812983401
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Author
Domenica Ruta
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Autobiography: General

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Place of Publication
New York
Author Biography
Domenica Ruta was born and raised in Danvers, Massachusetts. She is a graduate of Oberlin College and holds an MFA from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin. She was a finalist for the Keene Prize for Literature and has been awarded residencies at Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, the Blue Mountain Center, Jentel, and Hedgebrook.
Out-Of-Print Date
03/03/2016
Date of Publication
02/04/2014
Country of Publication
United States

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