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Andreina Vcozzi _ndrevcozzi — These essays are of a more personal nature than I expected when starting this book. They are thoughtful, often insightful, and sometimes rambly, all of which is excellent and makes for a good read in my world. Because they are often unflattering to the first-person narrator, they also come across as honest, another thing that helps keep us firmly on the side of the narrator--it's hard to walk away from all that juicy disclosure. A couple of D'Ambrosio quotes that caught my attention: "The whisper and hiss and cranky dyspeptic sputter of a Coleman is as distinct and holy a music as the rev of a Harley. I like the celestial quality of the light, Venusian and green, the rounded simplicity of the mantle, the paint job, of course, and the way one sounds when swung by the bail." "In fact he was an emphatic person the way other people are tenors or baritones, and because I had the window seat and felt trapped I began to get buggy. Everything he said stuck to my skin." "The Crime That Never Was," "Orphans," and "Documents" stood out as my favorites of the bunch, although "Mary Kay Letourneau," "Whaling," "Hell House," and "Biosquat" were all good, too. There are a few other essays here that are already fading for me, but I don't remember any of them being dull while I was reading, so this probably just means they didn't strike me as much as the ones I do remember clearly, not that they weren't also good essays themselves. There's a lot of isolation in these, explorations of different ways of being alone in the world. "Documents" in particular is heartbreaking, partly a view into strained father/son relationships and partly about how families deal with a tragedy that has affected the family as a unit and each member individually and how the different stories each person involved has to tell themselves to move through the tragedy can't always coexist. My one sticking point by the end of the collection is that the tone and voice and cadence is similar between all of these essays (with the possible exception of "Documents," which has a slightly different format and that may be one reason it left such a strong impression on me) so that, by the end, they start to sound too much the same.

Alexander Hudson pxl8d — I found this book when I was still in high school. It was a bad time for me. At the time I was upset and confused. Mostly, I was angry at males and the patriarchal society. I didn't know how to relate as a trained under duress strong female who had suppressed submissive tendencies. I also thought there was something wrong with me. The title of this book caught my attention. Damage. How true. I read this book and I was horrified at how a seemingly perfect life could go terribly wrong. I could understand the desires and wants of the father. Yet I couldn't understand how he could do this to his family. His perfect family with the perfect son and daughter. Then the wife, what was wrong with her that she couldn't supply what her husband wanted? It was so baffling for me and once again validated to my young self that relationships and specifically marriage was a bad bad thing. There was a line in the book which meant a lot to me. "Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive." I felt that to my soul. I guess I've always felt I was damaged some how due to my perversions. When a movie based on this story came out, I saw it. It was just as devastating for me as the book. Then again, I'm a fan of Jeremy Irons and Juliette Binoche. This is a book with no happily ever afters or happily for now. Even 20 years later, I still remember this book vividly.