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Dyer Straits
Growing up in Dorchester, MA during the '60s and '70s meant living through some of Boston's most turbulent years.
In this memoir, the author traces her and her siblings' childhoods inside a world marked by addiction, mental illness, poverty, and domestic violence-and by the fierce bonds that helped them survive it.
At home, a mother of eight did everything she could under impossible circumstances: resourceful, protective, and determined to keep her family afloat. Her children learned early to raise one another, cover for one another, and find pockets of light wherever they could, in neighborhood alliances, in laughter, and in music.
Their father, volatile and mentally ill, cast a long shadow over the household, shaping much of what the family had to navigate.
Threaded throughout is the music that held the siblings together. From kitchen-radio singalongs to teenage bedrooms pulsing with rock and roll, music became a refuge-a shared language of humor, escape, and love.
Both a family tribute and a raw, unflinching look at growing up in working-class Dorchester, this memoir reveals not just the strength it took to endure those years-but the courage it takes to remember.
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Dyer Straits
Growing up in Dorchester, MA during the '60s and '70s meant living through some of Boston's most turbulent years.
In this memoir, the author traces her and her siblings' childhoods inside a world marked by addiction, mental illness, poverty, and domestic violence-and by the fierce bonds that helped them survive it.
At home, a mother of eight did everything she could under impossible circumstances: resourceful, protective, and determined to keep her family afloat. Her children learned early to raise one another, cover for one another, and find pockets of light wherever they could, in neighborhood alliances, in laughter, and in music.
Their father, volatile and mentally ill, cast a long shadow over the household, shaping much of what the family had to navigate.
Threaded throughout is the music that held the siblings together. From kitchen-radio singalongs to teenage bedrooms pulsing with rock and roll, music became a refuge-a shared language of humor, escape, and love.
Both a family tribute and a raw, unflinching look at growing up in working-class Dorchester, this memoir reveals not just the strength it took to endure those years-but the courage it takes to remember.
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Growing up in Dorchester, MA during the '60s and '70s meant living through some of Boston's most turbulent years.
In this memoir, the author traces her and her siblings' childhoods inside a world marked by addiction, mental illness, poverty, and domestic violence-and by the fierce bonds that helped them survive it.
At home, a mother of eight did everything she could under impossible circumstances: resourceful, protective, and determined to keep her family afloat. Her children learned early to raise one another, cover for one another, and find pockets of light wherever they could, in neighborhood alliances, in laughter, and in music.
Their father, volatile and mentally ill, cast a long shadow over the household, shaping much of what the family had to navigate.
Threaded throughout is the music that held the siblings together. From kitchen-radio singalongs to teenage bedrooms pulsing with rock and roll, music became a refuge-a shared language of humor, escape, and love.
Both a family tribute and a raw, unflinching look at growing up in working-class Dorchester, this memoir reveals not just the strength it took to endure those years-but the courage it takes to remember.
