Another Bullshit Night in Suck City : A Memoir

from Wassilissa

Der Autor arbeitet in einem Obdachlosenheim, in dem sein Vater immer wieder strandet. Im Buch geht es um diese Beziehung- wie viel Nähe kann zugelassen werden, bevor es für einen selbst gefährlich wird. Wieso kann der eine (der Sohn) ein Buch schreiben- trotz ausgesprochen problematischer Jugend,...

from phillyexpat

Flynn's memoir tells the story of his own troubled adulthood and his work at the Pine Street Shelter in Boston, which eventually collides with the story of his father, who abandoned him, his brother, and his mother, when Flynn was a baby. Flynn alternates between his own life and his father's sto...

from MissMea

An interesting and engaging story of a young man's relationship with his parents, with his job in a shelter, and with life in general...has quite a unique structure in the sense that it has no "set" structure at all! The book mimicks the randomness of a work of art: colorful, unexpected, and note...

from eleanor_eader

Nick Flynn grew up not knowing his father, except through a series of self-aggrandising letters, claims of artistic written genius and altruism. The lies are his father's legacy. His mother's is her suicide, and the father figures who have drifted in and out of their lives. Later, he ends up work...

from KymmAC

Can hardly tell if it's good on its own. All the references to Scituate blew me away, right back into childhood and home. Also parts of Boston, while not direct references are part of my makeup. The Pine Street Inn and all those years of ads and donation campaigns, the era and my own awareness of...