"Dramatic, graphic and wrenching...The reader is left to wonder--at the devastation of Carcaterra's youth, at his survival to adulthood, and at the grace that allowed him to craft this piercing memoir."
THE WASHINGTON POST
Lorenza Carcaterra grew up in Hell's Kitchen, New York in the 1950s and '60s in a confusing world of love and fear of his paradoxically violent and affectionate father. Then Lorenzo learned that his father had murdered his first wife. And he wondered how he could love his father again. Did he possess the same murderous fury; would he someday suddenly lash out at those he loved? As his father's physical abuse escalated, Lorenzo sought frantically for a safe place...a place where he could find hope and reconciliation and peace, where his father's terrible shadow no longer lingered. Now, decades later, Lorenzo has finally come to terms with the awful truth about his father. A SAFE PLACE is the brilliant result.

This is a new HC book I received in a Christmas surprise package from my good friend mom2jwn. I plan to read it soon

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I'm reading this now. It's very detailed and horrible. It's like reading a book about the biggest loser in Hell's Kitchen, and there is a Mrs Loser too. I've been to several of the places he describes in Manhattan and I enjoyed reading about Yankee Stadium and the restaurants

Finished reading this March 2019 If you want to read a book about a dysfunctional family this book is for you. I will find a new home for this

I put this book in the mail to a BC friend for a LFL

With the NYC references in this book, it is appropriate that it was waiting for me upon my return from a spring break trip to...New York City! Thanks for sending it!

I just came across this again and will be placing it in my Little Free Library soon.

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