Leave Out the Tragic Parts

Leave Out the Tragic Parts A Grandfather's Search for a Boy Lost to Addiction

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Publisher's Synopsis

Jared Kindred left his home and family at the age of eighteen, choosing to wander across America on freight train cars and live on the street. Addicted to alcohol most of his short life, and withholding the truth from many who loved him, he never found a way to survive.

Through this ordeal, Dave Kindred's love for his grandson has never wavered.

Leave Out the Tragic Parts is not merely a reflection on love and addiction and loss. It is a hard-won work of reportage, meticulously reconstructing the life Jared chose for himself--a life that rejected the comforts of civilization in favor of a chance to roam free.

Kindred asks painful but important questions about the lies we tell to get along, and what binds families together or allows them to fracture. Jared's story ended in tragedy, but the act of telling it is an act of healing and redemption. This is an important book on how to love your family, from a great writer who has lived its lessons.

Book information

ISBN: 9781541757073
Publisher: Little, Brown
Imprint: PublicAffairs
Pub date:
DEWEY: 362.29092
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 256
Weight: 238g
Height: 138mm
Width: 210mm
Spine width: 19mm