Dark-Land: Memoir of a Secret Childhood

"Put this beautiful book on your shelf between Frank Conroy's Stop-Time and Tobias Wolff's This Boy's Life."
—William Giraldi, author of The Hero's Body

"Of all the memoirs and autobiographies I’ve ever read—literary or otherwise—Dark-Land is among the very best . . . [A] genuinely astonishing achievement."
—John Wilson, The Washington Examiner

Named BOOK OF THE YEAR by First Things magazine

This powerful memoir from...