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Half a Life

Half a Life

Author(s): Darin Strauss

Location(s): Long Island

Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs

Era(s): 1988 onwards

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`Half my life ago, I killed a girl.’ Thus starts the hard hitting opening of this book, an autobiography of how he was driving his Dad’s car, in May 1988 on a road on Long Island. A day out, with which changed Darin’s life forever. Celine Zilke’s bike swerved, they collided and she died. What you have is an honest account of how an event, which he was found innocent of, changed Darin’s life and not just when it happened but in the weeks, months and decades that followed.

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“A remarkable, beyond-brave memoir that offers an intensely personal look at the most agonizing events in the author’s post-accident life… With astounding frequency, Strauss pinpoints truths that most of us would find indescribable.” –Stephan...

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