Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional Fitzgerald Isaac
Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional Fitzgerald Isaac "The best of what memoir can accomplish... He's been an altar boy, a bartender, a fat kid, a smuggler, a biker, a prince of New England.…
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Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional Fitzgerald Isaac
"The best of what memoir can accomplish... He's been an altar boy, a bartender, a fat kid, a smuggler, a biker, a prince of New England. pulling no punches on the path to truth, but it always finds the capacity for grace and joy." -Esquire, Best Memoirs of the YearIsaac Fitzgerald has lived many lives.
In Dirtbag, Massachusetts, Fitzgerald, with warmth and humor, recounts his ongoing search for forgiveness, a more far-reaching vision of masculinity, and a more expansive definition of family and self.Fitzgerald's memoir-in-essays begins with a childhood that moves at breakneck speed from safety to violence, recounting an extraordinary pilgrimage through trauma to self-understanding and, ultimately, acceptance. But before all that, he was a bomb that exploded his parents' lives-or so he was told. From growing up in a Boston homeless shelter to bartending