Full name: With or Without You: A Memoir

Author: Domenica Ruta Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Memoirs, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Barns&Noble Amazon eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780812993240 9780812983401 0812983408

Domenica Ruta grew up in Danvers, Massachusetts, in a ramshackle, rundown, trash-filled house with her mother, a drug dealer and user who raised Domenica on a steady diet of Oxycontin. Growing up, Domenica knew she didn't fit in-she was far smarter and worse dressed than everyone else she knew, and she clearly had the most flamboyant mother of anyone in town-but she found solace in writing and reading. As she grew older, though, and as her mother's behavior grew increasingly outrageous and her home life increasingly untenable, Domenica fled Danvers only to become ensnared by the demons of addiction. A thoroughly textured and masterfully written book, layered with wildly colorful characters, a biting sense of humor, and penetrating, deeply sympathetic insights, With or Without You finally ends with Domenica's increasing awareness that she must leave the life she grew up with in order to survive. Similar books: The Night of the Gun by David Carr A Piece of Cake by Cupcake Brown Born with Teeth by Kate Mulgrew The Chronology of Water by Lidia Yuknavitch Slow Love by Dominique Browning Borrowed Finery by Paula Fox Giving Up the Ghost by Hilary Mantel Townie by Andre Dubus Lost In Place by Mark Salzman All That Is Bitter & Sweet by Ashley Judd Permanent Midnight by Jerry Stahl Sky of Stone by Homer Hickam A Match to the Heart by Gretel Ehrlich Fat Girl by Judith Moore More, Now, Again by Elizabeth Wurtzel When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom Educated by Tara Westover Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls The Story of My Life by Helen Keller