![]() But ultimately it’s all about choices and what guides us to them. The book covers many bases: the cruelty of children, the testing of physical and emotional boundaries, the fallibility of parents. In “Townie,” Dubus manages that most difficult task: he forgives his father's trespasses to write with an unclouded mind, allowing readers to side with whomever they choose. Dubus’s father, who divorced his mother when the children were young and went on to remarry twice, taught at a local college and saw his children inconsistently-for the occasional Thanksgiving dinner, at a bar for a beer or seven, on random birthdays. ![]() Dubus, who shares a name with his father, the acclaimed short-story writer, grew up in a mill town in Massachusetts, where he lived a rather hardscrabble life with his mother and three siblings. Andre Dubus III, who is perhaps best known for his lovely and melancholic novel “ House of Sand and Fog,” shows his bones in “ Townie,” a stormy, courageous memoir. ![]()
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