Ebook {Epub PDF} With or Without You by Domenica Ruta

With or Without You. Without a doubt, Domenica Ruta can write. She's a wordsmith with a compelling story to tell. In a poignant, horrifying, and sometimes humorous memoir we get a glimpse of her chaotic, confusing and depressing life with a very mentally ill mother.  · DANVERS, Mass. — Domenica Ruta’s “With or Without You” is a recovery memoir in which the most vivid character doesn’t recover. She is Ms. Ruta’s mother, Kathi, a Estimated Reading Time: 7 mins. 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. In a brilliant stylistic feat, Ruta has written a powerful, inspiring, compulsively readable, and finally redemptive story about loving and leaving.

Domenica Ruta has done something every artist with a failed family must do: She has created herself."-Gary Shteyngart, author of Super Sad True Love Story From the Hardcover edition., Praise for With or Without You "Too often the memoir category sacrifices good writing to the quick pulse of the storyline, but Domenica Ruta is a real and. With or Without You Domenica Ruta, Spiegel Grau pp. ISBN Summary 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. Domenica Ruta's memoir is right up there with Mary Karr's Liar's Club, Jeanette Wells Glass Castle, and Dorothy Allison's Bastard out of Carolina. Written with, humor, and angst, With or Without You, is a deftly crafted memoir. Ruta is a poet at heart - and there are countless sentences you will read again and again, thinking.

DANVERS, Mass. — Domenica Ruta’s “With or Without You” is a recovery memoir in which the most vivid character doesn’t recover. She is Ms. Ruta’s mother, Kathi, a lifelong drug user and. With or Without You. Without a doubt, Domenica Ruta can write. She's a wordsmith with a compelling story to tell. In a poignant, horrifying, and sometimes humorous memoir we get a glimpse of her chaotic, confusing and depressing life with a very mentally ill mother. With or Without You is a powerful, disturbing, honest memoir by Domenica Ruta. Domenica suffered through a trash-strewn squalid childhood with her single mom, Kathi, in Danvers, Massachusetts. Kathi was a drug addict, dealer, and alcoholic. She was unpredictable and unstable.