By: Darin Strauss
Genre: Non-Fiction Memoir
Mcsweeneys Books
September 1, 2010
On Sale: September 15, 2010
Featuring:
204 pages
ISBN: 1934781703
EAN: 9781934781708
Hardcover
Book Summary
“Half my life ago, I killed a girl.”
So begins Darin Strauss’ Half a Life, the true story of how one outing in his father’s Oldsmobile resulted in the death of a classmate and the beginning of a different, darker life for the author. We follow Strauss as he explores his startling past—collision, funeral, the queasy drama of a high-stakes court case—and what starts as a personal tale of a tragic event opens into the story of how to live with a very hard fact: we can try our human best in the crucial moment, and it might not be good enough. Half a Life is a nakedly honest, ultimately hopeful examination of guilt, responsibility, and living with the past.