Gritty and clear-eyed, loud-hearted and beautiful, Dirtbag, Massachusetts is a rollicking book that might also be a lifeline. 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. When he sold a proposal for a collection of essays.

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.įitzgerald'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. AugIsaac Fitzgerald, author of the new memoir Dirtbag, Massachusetts, said for years that he’d never write about his childhood.

But before all that, he was a bomb that exploded his parents' lives-or so he was told. He's been an altar boy, a bartender, a fat kid, a smuggler, a biker, a prince of New England. Significado de dirtbag en inglés dirtbag noun C very informal uk / dt.bæ / us / dt.

It's the rare writer who reveals, and Dirtbag, Massachusetts is a heart on the sleeve, demons in check, eyes unblinking, unbearably sad, laugh-out-loud funny revelation.”-MARLON JAMES, author of Moon Witch, Spider King Isaac Fitzgerald shares inspiration behind ‘Dirtbag, Massachusetts’ Isaac Fitzgerald joins TODAY to talk about his new raw and revealing memoir, Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional.

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