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"Isaac Fitzgerald has lived many lives. He's been an altar boy, a bartender, a fat kid, a smuggler, a biker, a prince of New England. But before all that, he was a bomb that exploded his parents' lives-or so he was told. 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...
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview:
#1 I was a child of passion. I was born of sin: a mistake in human form, a bomb aimed perfectly to blow up both my parents' lives. My parents met at divinity school, which was a pretty funny way to start an affair.
#2 I grew up with my mother and father at the Catholic Worker, a socialist Catholic charity that housed the homeless and fed the hungry. They were a...
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"Laugh-out-loud funny. Greg Marshall is one helluva storyteller . . . Bright, bold, and beautiful." -ISAAC FITZGERALD, New York Times bestselling author of Dirtbag, Massachusetts
"A strange, smutty, hilarious, beautiful, compassionate, provoking, big-hearted, sharp-tongued, original, brilliant memoir. I hated to see it end." ―ELIZABETH McCRACKEN, National Book Award finalist and author of The Hero of This Book
"Marshall is one...
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Street Noise Books
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2022.
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A rough-and-tumble Iraq War veteran is young and in love, and the last thing on his mind is food and the ethics of eating meat. But when his girlfriend becomes a vegetarian and animal rights activist, suddenly food is all he thinks about. A true story of how love and vegetarianism can triumph over all else.
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