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Townie andre dubus6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() While his mother was at work, young toughs hung out at his house doing drugs. Weak and shy as he entered his teens, Dubus III lived with his mother and siblings in run-down houses in crime-ridden neighborhoods, where they ate canned food for dinner and considered occasional “mystery” car rides to nowhere special with their mother a big treat. Beautifully written and bursting with life, the book tells the story of a boy struggling to express his “hurt and rage,” first through violence aimed at school and barroom bullies and ultimately through the power of words. The author grew up poor in Massachusetts mill towns, the oldest of four children of the celebrated short-story writer Andre Dubus (1936–1999), who abandoned the family in 1968 to pursue a young student. ![]() A powerful, haunting memoir from acclaimed novelist Dubus III ( The Garden of Last Days, 2008, etc.). ![]()
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