With or without you by domenica ruta

Domenica ruta grew up in danvers, massachusetts, in a ramshack. Domenica ruta s with or without you is a recovery memoir in which the most vivid character doesnt recover. Nikki, the childhood incarnation of domenica ruta and the daughter of a sometimes charismatic, other times irascible italianamerican single mom, makes the following precocious observation early on. Difficult childhoods are plentiful, the talent to transform adversity into art in short supply. Domenica ruta is a fiction writer and memoirist from massachusetts.

Like her daughter, kathi is not just selfdestructive, but also bright, funny, and a true original. In a brilliant stylistic feat, domenica ruta has written a powerful, inspiring, compulsively. With or without you online media of northern illinois. With or without you domenica ruta s memoir is akin to a scab that you cant resist picking. Domenica ruta grew up in danvers, massachusetts, in a ramshackle, rundown, trashfilled house with her mother, a drug dealer and user who raised domenica.

With or without you ebook douglas county libraries. She is a graduate of oberlin college and holds an mfa from the michener center for writers at the university of texas at austin. And from a hardearned remove, she tries to give kathi her due. After domenica ceased contact, her mother would call several times a day and night, and leave screaming messages on domenica s voicemail. This is the discussion guide for with or without you by domenica ruta. With or without you domenica ruta 9780812993240 netgalley. With or without you by domenica ruta discussion guide.

Quotes by domenica ruta denial and the desire to selfdestruct are elemental cousins. With or without you open the cover of domenica ruta s new memoir, with or without you, and you ll find a quotation from kurt vonnegut. A scholarship kid at phillips academy andover and oberlin college, she has worked as a videographer and editor, a book store clerk, a waitress, a bartender, an englishasaforeignlanguage teacher, a nanny, a nursing home caregiver, a domestic violence hotline advocate and a house cleaner. Domenica ruta s amazing memoir transforms her suffering into art in with or without you. Domenica rutas new memoir, with or without you, details her complicated life and her drugaddicted mother. With or without you summary book club discussion questions. Domenica rutas memoir, with or without you the new york. Domenica ruta faculty profile gotham writers workshop. Advance praise for with or without you freakishly brilliant, brilliantly freakish, this is one of the best memoirs i have ever read.

With or without you new york times bestseller a haunting, unforgettable motherdaughter story for a new generationthe debut of a blazing new lyrical voice named one of the ten best nonfiction books of the year by entertainment weekly domenica ruta grew up in a workingclass, unforgiving town north of boston, in a trashfilled house on a deadend road surrounded by a river and a salt marsh. With or without you by domenica ruta ah, well who needs enemies when you have relatives like debut author domenica ruta. With or without you new york times bestseller a haunting, unforgettable motherdaughter story for a new generationthe debut of a blazing new lyrical voice named one of the ten best nonfiction books of the year by entertainment weekly domenica ruta grew up in a workingclass, unforgiving town north of boston, in a trashfilled house on a deadend road surrounded by a. A haunting, unforgettable motherdaughter story for a new generationthe debut of a blazing new lyrical voice domenica ruta grew up in a workingclass, unforgiving italian town north of boston. Ruta keeps the anguish attending her upbringing which included repeated sexual abuse by a family friend at bay with a voice that is richly sardonic.

Survival required separation, and ruta s account is a fairly dry, restrained chronicle of. Rutas description of her surroundings is hauntingly graphic. Domenica rutas memoir, with or without you, chronicles her youth in a working class massachusetts town, the daughter of a wildly flamboyant. With or without you by domenica ruta penguin random house audio. Cocainefueled rages, scathing insults, and drunken oversharing arent what a daughter hopes for in her relationship with her mother, but. New york times bestseller a haunting, unforgettable motherdaughter story for a new generationthe debut of a blazing. Domenica suffered through a trashstrewn squalid childhood with her single mom, kathi, in danvers, massachusetts. Feb 26, 20 with or without you is the story of domenicas unconventional coming of agea darkly hilarious chronicle of a misfit 90s childhood and the necessary and painful act of breaking away, and of overcoming her own addictions and demons in the process. With or without you new york times bestseller a haunting, unforgettable motherdaughter story for a new generationthe debut of a blazing new lyrical voicenamed one of the ten best nonfiction books of the year by entertainment weekly domenica ruta grew up in a workingclass, unforgiving town north of boston, in a trashfilled house on a deadend road surrounded by a.

Domenica rutas memoir, with or without you, chronicles her youth in a workingclass massachusetts town, the daughter of a wildly flamboyant. With or without you king county library system overdrive. With or without you is the story of domenica s unconventional coming of agea darkly hilarious chronicle of a misfit 90s childhood and the necessary and painful act of breaking away, and of overcoming her own addictions and demons in the process. Mar 11, 2014 domenica ruta s memoir is right up there with mary karrs liars club, jeanette wells glass castle, and dorothy allisons bastard out of carolina. Domenica ruta, author of with or without you domenica ruta grew up in a workingclass massachusetts town with a mother who dreamed big but also bashed in windshields with a. With or without you npr coverage of with or without you. With or without you by domenica ruta penguin random. In a brilliant stylistic feat, domenica ruta has written a powerful, inspiring, compulsively readable, and finally redemptive story about loving and leaving. These are the haunting central questions of with or without you by domenica ruta, lifting it above other recent examples of the dysfunctional mommy and me memoir. With or without you has been compared to the glass castle and the liars club. You were sick, but now you re well, and theres work to do. Ruta grew up in the 80s with kathi, her abusive drug dealeraddict italian american mother and passive dependent stepfather. The memoir of the emancipation of a daughter from her drugdealer.

Written with, humor, and angst, with or without you, is a deftly crafted memoir. Domenica ruta, author of with or without you talks about how severing ties with her mother was a necessary step towards her happiness photo by meredith zinner. In a brilliant stylistic feat, ruta has written a powerful, inspiring, compulsively readable. With or without you, by domenica ruta the new york times. Excruciatingly painful to read, with or without you insists that the reader continue domenicas journey, hoping for her redemption. A writers relationship with her mother, both a drug addict and a life force, is at the heart of this memoir. Unflinching in its regard, forgiving in its humor, with or without you is that rare thing, a story you think you know transformed into one you have to read to the end. With or without you by domenica ruta overdrive rakuten. In a brilliant stylistic feat, ruta has written a powerful, inspiring, compulsively. With or without you chester county library system overdrive. With or without you domenica rutas memoir is akin to a scab that you cant resist picking.

New york times bestseller a haunting, unforgettable motherdaughter story for a new generationthe debut of a blazing new lyrical voice named one of the ten best nonfiction books of the year by entertainment weekly domenica ruta grew up in a workingclass, unforgiving town north of boston, in a trashfilled house on a deadend road surrounded. Ruta s mother, kathi, a lifelong drug user and occasional. With or without you by domenica ruta the boston globe. With or without you open the cover of domenica rutas new memoir, with or without you, and youll find a quotation from kurt vonnegut. Domenica ruta is author of the memoir with or without you. Domenica ruta grew up in a workingclass, unforgiving italian town north of boston where in the seventeenth century women were hanged as witches. Dec 02, 2015 books and authors, with or without you, domenica ruta. From the u2 song with or without you, which ruta and her mom liked. Nikki, the childhood incarnation of domenica ruta and the daughter of a sometimes charismatic, other times irascible italianamerican single.

Early life edit ruta was born in danvers, massachusetts to unwed teenage parents. Make it new, ezra pound directed, and domenica ruta has. With or without you is the story of domenicas unconventional coming of age a darkly hilarious chronicle of a misfit 90s childhood and the necessary and painful act of breaking away, and of overcoming her own addictions and demons in the process. With or without you is a powerful, disturbing, honest memoir by domenica ruta. Domenica ruta cut all ties with her mom to finally find. A memoir by domenica ruta 20, hardcover at the best online prices at ebay. Books and authors, with or without you, domenica ruta. With or without you is the story of domenica ruta s unconventional coming of agea darkly hilarious chronicle of a misfit 90s youth and the necessary and painful act of breaking away, and of overcoming her own addictions and demons in the process.

With or without you audiobook domenica ruta audible. In a brilliant stylistic feat, ruta has written a powerful, inspiring, compulsively readable, and finally redemptive story about loving and leaving. Her mother kept domenica home from school to watch classic movies. We are now introducing cd retail packaging on our site. Her mother, kathi, a notorious local figure, was a drug addict and sometimes dealer whose life swung between welfare and riches. Domenica ruta s with or without you is a searing, honest look at her life growing up with a mother who was an alcoholic and drug addict, and wanted her daughter to have the same life. With or without you is the story of domenica rutas unconventional coming of agea darkly hilarious chronicle of a misfit 90s youth and the necessary and painful act of breaking away, and of overcoming her own addictions and demons in the process. Her mother, kathi, a notorious figure in this hardscrabble place, was a drug addict and sometime dealer whose life swung between welfare and riches, whose highbrow taste. In its contours, with or without you is a conventional memoir of recoverythe story of how domenica broke from the destructive habits she learned from her mother and found solace in the vocation. Dysfunctional sounds nearly sane after meeting ruta s family on the page or stuck in the ears choosing the latter is especially recommended as ruta herself narrates with chilling, detached efficiency. With or without you is the story of domenica ruta s unconventional coming of age a darkly hilarious chronicle of a misfit 90s youth and the necessary and painful act of breaking away, and of overcoming her own addictions and demons in the process. A darkly hilarious and compulsively readable motherdaughter story for a new generation domenica ruta grew up in trashfilled house in a hardscrabble town where women were once burned as witches.

Her mother, kathi, a notorious figure in this hardscrabble place, was a drug addict and sometime dealer whose life swung between welfare and. You were sick, but now youre well, and theres work to. Open the cover of domenica rutas new memoir, with or without you, and youll find a quotation from kurt vonnegut. I intentionally avoided memoirs as a genre during my drinking years because i didnt want anyone to ruin my pity party or kill my buzz. In its contours, with or without you is a conventional memoir of recoverythe story of how domenica broke from the destructive habits she learned from her mother and found solace in the vocation of. With or without you is the story of domenicas unconventional coming of agea darkly hilarious chronicle of a misfit 90s childhood and the necessary and painful act of breaking away, and of overcoming her own addictions and demons in the process. As daughters, do we become echoes of our mothers and grandmothers. Sometimes, her mother would just hold the phone up to the radio, and one of the songs she played was u2s with or without you.

With or without you tells an emotionally complex story in which love and hate are two sides of the. A memoir by domenica ruta in todays age of oversharing, throw a rock and youre bound to hit a confession memoir or an author whos in the process of writing one. In a brilliant stylistic feat, ruta has written a powerful, inspiring, compulsively readable, and. And if our mothers failed us as role models, are we doomed to fail in the same way. Domenica rutas with or without you is a recovery memoir in which the most vivid character doesnt recover. What do you feel sets your story apart from other memoirs. Ruta s description of her surroundings is hauntingly graphic. In a brilliant stylistic feat, domenica ruta has penned a powerful, inspiring, pauseresisting, and finally redemptive story about loving and leaving. Domenica ruta was born and raised in danvers, massachusetts. Ruta was born in danvers, massachusetts to unwed teenage parents. Domenica ruta grew up in a workingclass, unforgiving town north of boston, in a trashfilled house on a deadend road surrounded by a river and a salt marsh.