Bibliograph

With or without you, a memoir, Domenica Ruta

Type

Label

With or without you, a memoir, Domenica Ruta

Language

eng

resource.biographical

individual biography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

With or without you

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

829027464

Responsibility statement

Domenica Ruta

Sub title

a memoir

Summary

Domenica Ruta grew up in a working-class, unforgiving town north of Boston, in a trash-filled house on a dead-end road surrounded by a river and a salt marsh. Her mother, Kathi, a notorious local figure, was a drug addict and sometimes dealer whose life swung between welfare and riches. And yet she managed, despite the chaos she created, to instill in her daughter a love of stories. Despite the fact that there was not 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 and the necessary and painful act of breaking away, and of overcoming her own addictions and demons in the process

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