In Dirtbag, Massachusetts, Fitzgerald, with warmth and humor, recounts his ongoing search for forgiveness, a more far-reaching vision of masculinity, and a more expansive definition of family and self.įitzgerald’s memoir-in-essays begins with a childhood that moves at breakneck speed from safety to violence, recounting an extraordinary pilgrimage through trauma to self-understanding and, ultimately, acceptance. But before all that, he was a bomb that exploded his parents’ lives-or so he was told. He’s been an altar boy, a bartender, a fat kid, a smuggler, a biker, a prince of New England.
It’s the rare writer who reveals, and Dirtbag, Massachusetts is a heart on the sleeve, demons in check, eyes unblinking, unbearably sad, laugh-out-loud funny revelation.”– MARLON JAMES, author of Moon Witch, Spider King He lives in Brooklyn.Ī Publishers Weekly Top 10 Memoir of the SeasonĪ Goodreads Readers’ Most Anticipated Books of SummerĪ Buzzfeed Summer Book You Won’t Be Able to Put Down His writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Guardian, the Best American Nonrequired Reading, and numerous other publications. Isaac Fitzgerald appears frequently on The Today Show and is the author of the bestselling children’s book How to Be a Pirate as well as the co-author of Pen & Ink and Knives & Ink (winner of an IACP Award). Join ISAAC FITZGERALD-frequent guest on The Today Show and author of the bestselling children’s book How to Be a Pirate-for a discussion of his new book “Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional.”
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