{"product_id":"dirtbag-massachusetts-isaac-fitzgerald-9798885785761","title":"Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional","description":"\u003cp\u003eIsaac Fitzgerald has lived many lives. He's been an altar boy, a bartender, a fat kid, a smuggler, a biker, a prince of New England. But before all that, he was a bomb that exploded his parents' lives-or so he was told. In \u003ci\u003eDirtbag, Massachusetts\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFitzgerald'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. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGritty and clear-eyed, loud-hearted and beautiful, \u003ci\u003eDirtbag, Massachusetts\u003c\/i\u003e is a rollicking book that might also be a lifeline.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Isaac Fitzgerald\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 888578576X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798885785761\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Thorndike Press Large Print\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/25\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Library Binding\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.01lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.51w x 0.79d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLarge Print\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Isaac Fitzgerald","offers":[{"title":"Library Binding","offer_id":44132957257983,"sku":"9798885785761","price":33.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1df7ec76-e40d-48ed-8d7e-d0f65eb08fd6.jpg?v=1687483263","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/dirtbag-massachusetts-isaac-fitzgerald-9798885785761","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}