What we lost

Description:

The critically acclaimed author of Now It's Time to Say Goodbye offers a thoughful biography of his father's tumultuous childhood and youth, describing his childhood in a poverty-stricken Long Island home with an abusive mother and alcoholic father, his move to his uncle's farm in upstate New York, and his difficult choice between his broken family and his future.

subjects: Fiction,  Poor families,  Young men,  Uncles,  Boys,  Farm life,  Problem families,  Broken homes,  Dysfunctional families,  Childhood and youth,  Biography,  LGBTQ biography and memoir,  collection:randy_shilts_award=finalist,  Fiction, sagas,  Long island (n.y.), fiction

People: Dale Peck

Places: New York (State),  Long Island (N.Y.),  New York