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With or Without You: A Memoir
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Domenica Ruta, "With or Without You: A Memoir"
2013 | ISBN-10: 0812993241 | EPUB, 

A haunting, unforgettable mother-daughter story for a new generationΓÇöthe debut of a blazing new lyrical voice

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 whose highbrow taste was at odds with her hardscrabble life. And yet she managed, despite the chaos she created, to instill in her daughter a love of stories. Kathi frequently kept Domenica home from school to watch such classics as the Godfather movies and everything by Martin Scorsese and Woody Allen, telling her, ΓÇ£This is more important. I promise. YouΓÇÖll thank me later.ΓÇ¥ And 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 RutaΓÇÖs unconventional coming of ageΓÇöa darkly hilarious chronicle of a misfit ΓÇÖ90s youth and the necessary and painful act of breaking away, and of overcoming her own addictions and demons in the process. In a brilliant stylistic feat, Ruta has written a powerful, inspiring, compulsively readable, and finally redemptive story about loving and leaving.