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With or Without You

A Memoir

by Domenica Ruta

With or Without You

Hardcover, 224 pages, Random House Inc, List Price: $25 | purchase

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A wryly comic, deeply emotional memoir of the author's relationship with her flamboyant drug dealer mother describes her misfit youth and eventual escape into writing before succumbing to addiction and resolving to leave her past in order to survive.

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Loving But Leaving A Toxic Mother In 'Without You'

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Domenica Ruta grew up in a working-class Massachusetts town with a mother who dreamed big — but also bashed in windshields with a baseball bat and hung around with drug dealers. Her new memoir, With or Without You, is a harrowing but beautifully written account of her life with — and her efforts to break away from — her mother.

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