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Won Book of the Year Adult Non-Fiction—2012 Indie Choice Awards

Amazon Best Book of the Month February 2011


An acclaimed novelist reflects on his violent past and a lifestyle that threatened to destroy him—until he was saved by writing.

After their parents divorced in the 1970s, Andre Dubus III and his three siblings grew up with their exhausted working mother in a depressed Massachusetts mill town saturated with drugs and everyday violence. To protect himself and those he loved, Andre starte...