another bullshit night in suck city

Another Bullshit Night in Suck City succeeds in a way most writers can only dream of: It is intense, lyrical, moving and ultimately enlightening. This is a book about no less than the vale of blood and the permanence of familial relations. A strangely poignant meditation on the debt sons owe their fathers, even bad fathers, even fathers that weren’t around. And if none of that interests you, read it for the sentences, each one a poem, and the flow of the narrative that hurtles toward a conclusion both stunning and unexpected… [a] near perfect work of literature.

―stephen elliott, san francisco gate

(review: the new york times)

A New York Times bestseller; winner of the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir; finalist for the Prix Femina (France); translated into fifteen languages.