With or Without You: A Memoir Audiobook (Free)

A haunting, memorable mother-daughter story for a new generation-the debut of the blazing brand-new lyrical voice

Domenica Ruta grew up inside a working-class, unforgiving Italian town north of Boston where in the seventeenth hundred years females were hanged while witches. Her mom, Kathi, a notorious body with this hardscrabble place, was a drug addict and sometime dealer whose lifestyle swung between welfare and riches, whose highbrow taste was at chances with her base appetites. Yet she managed, despite about With or Without You: A Memoir the chaos she created, to instill in her child the idea that art-via a classic film or a classical education-could transcend this lifestyle of undying grudges, self-inflicted misfortune, and the crooked moral code that Kathi and her cohorts resided by. With or Without You may be the tale of Domenica’s unconventional arriving of age-a darkly amusing chronicle of the misfit ’90s childhood and the necessary and painful take action of breaking away, and of overcoming her have addictions and demons in the process. In a brilliant stylistic feat, Domenica Ruta offers written a powerful, inspiring, compulsively readable, and finally redemptive tale about adoring and leaving.

Advance compliment for With or Without You

“Freakishly brilliant, brilliantly freakish, this is one of the better memoirs I’ve ever read. Domenica Ruta did something every musician using a failed family members should do: She has produced herself.”-Gary Shteyngart

“ ‘Produce it new,’ Ezra Pound aimed, and Domenica Ruta offers. Tough childhoods are abundant; the skill to change adversity into artwork is an issue. Unflinching in its respect, forgiving in its humor, With or Without You is normally that rare factor, a story you think you know transformed into one you have to read to the end.”-Kathryn Harrison

“In the world of memoir, Mary Karr’s and Geoffrey Wolff’s exceptional books burn off and brighten, like actual stars among strings of tinsel. With or Without You is similar to that. I will examine whatever Domenica Ruta writes.”-Amy Bloom