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005			20220803135505.0
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020			_a9781635573978 _q(hardcover)
020			_a1635573971 _q(hardcover)
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092			_aFITZGERA I _bF553
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100	1		_aFitzgerald, Isaac, _eauthor. _9263073
245	1	0	_aDirtbag, Massachusetts : _ba confessional / _cIsaac Fitzgerald.
264		1	_aNew York : _bBloomsbury Publishing, _c2022.
264		4	_c©2022
300			_ax, 242 pages ; _c22 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
505	0		_aFamily stories -- Forgive me -- Confessions of a former former fat kid -- The true story of my teenage fight club -- Dirtbag, Massachusetts -- Hold steady -- Home -- Maybe I could die this way -- The armory -- High for the holidays -- When your barber assumes you're a racist, too -- My story.
520			_a"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 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. From growing up in a Boston homeless shelter to bartending in San Francisco, from smuggling medical supplies into Burma to his lifelong struggle to make peace with his body, Fitzgerald strives to take control of his own story: one that aims to put aside anger, isolation, and entitlement to embrace the idea that one can be generous to oneself by being generous to others. Gritty and clear-eyed, loud-hearted and beautiful, Dirtbag, Massachusetts is a rollicking book that might also be a lifeline."--Book jacket.
600	1	0	_aFitzgerald, Isaac. _9263073
651		0	_aNew England _xSocial conditions _vAnecdotes.
650		0	_aMasculinity. _946672
650		0	_aComing of age _xHumor.
650		0	_aConduct of life _xHumor. _9361133
655		7	_aAnecdotes. _2lcgft _94847
655		7	_aAutobiographies. _2lcgft _9728
655		7	_aBiographies. _2lcgft _9870
655		7	_aEssays. _2lcgft _95184
655		7	_aHumor. _2lcgft _920126
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