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03031aam a2200481 i 4500 001 7C15222CA39211ED924352D529ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230203011453 008 220911s2023 meu d 000 0aeng 010 $a 2022040587 020 $a 9798885785761 (hardcover : large print) 035 $a (OCoLC)1344546859 040 $a LBSOR/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us-ma $a n-us-ma 050 00 $a PS3606.I8789 $b Z46 082 00 $a 813/.6 $2 23 100 1 $a Fitzgerald, Isaac, $e author. 245 10 $a Dirtbag, Massachusetts : $b a confessional / $c Isaac Fitzgerald. 250 $a Large print edition. 260 $a Waterville, Maine : $b Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company., $c 2023. 263 $a 2301 300 $a 339 pages ; $c 23 cm. 505 0 $a Family 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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Fitzgerald, Isaac. 650 0 $a Authors, American $y 21st century $v Biography. 650 0 $a Dysfunctional families $z Massachusetts. 650 0 $a Coming of age $z United States. 650 0 $a Masculinity $z United States. 650 0 $a Large type books. 651 0 $a New England $x Social conditions $v Anecdotes. 655 7 $a Anecdotes. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Autobiographies. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Essays. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Humor. $2 lcgft 941 $a 3 945 $a lpt 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010032054.0 952 $l KWPE446 $d 20230602011539.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20230203012355.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=7C15222CA39211ED924352D529ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search