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.įitzgerald’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. He's been an altar boy, a bartender, a fat kid, a smuggler, a biker, a prince of New England. It’s the rare writer who reveals, and Dirtbag, Massachusetts is a heart on the sleeve, demons in check, eyes unblinking, unbearably sad, laugh-out-loud funny revelation.” -Marlon James, author of Moon Witch, Spider King A Goodreads Readers' Most Anticipated Books of Summer.A BookPage Most Anticipated Book of 2022.A Publishers Weekly Top 10 Memoir of the Season.A Buzzfeed Summer Book You Won't Be Able to Put Down.An Esquire Best Memoir of the Year and Best Book of the Summer.
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