These books don't seem as uplifting as most of the others you all have submitted-the title of the second book is a bit offensive but I'm hoping we can get past that...
Fugitive Pieces
by Anne Michaels
It's about a little boy who survives World War II-how he's rescued and how he grows up and gets past the tragedy of what he's been through. Where this book could seem like sad subject matter in contains possible and unlikely kindnesses of people one toward another.
ANOTHER BULL---- NIGHT IN SUCK CITY
by Nick Flynn
Flynn's memoir is about growing up in a tumultuous household after his alcoholic father abandoned the family. His dad became homeless, and though they were estranged, their paths did cross, in part because Flynn was working at a homeless shelter his father would occasionally duck into. The book seems rough and raw and real. Beautiful scenes of a boy coming of age and later, his falling in love after a divorce. Anne Michaels writing is supposed to be poetic and the story magical in an unikely way.
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