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|author=Andre Dubus III
|reviewer=Louise Laurie
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|pages=352
|publisher=W W Norton and Co
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The book opens with Andre and his father taking a jog. Seems a normal and natural activity - what's to write about here, you could be asking. Well, I'll tell you. By this time the father no longer lives in the family home, the mother is struggling to pay the bills and to put food on the table - and the author, Andre is too embarrassed to admit to his father that he doesn't own a pair of jogging shoes. He's borrowed his sister's even although they're about two sizes too small, he's in agony seconds into the jog but is he going to own up? Nope. Bloody feet and pain are a by-product of precious time with his father. So straight away, I'm getting the gist of the book and the relationship between father and son.
I'd like to thank the publishers for sending a copy to the Bookbag.
If this book appeals then you might like to try [[Intrepid Woman : Betty Lussier's Secret War, 1942-1945 by Betty Lussier]].
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