num_pages: 229
description: The critically acclaimed author of Now It's Time to Say Goodbye offers a thoughful biography of his father's tumultuous childhood and youth, describing his childhood in a poverty-stricken Long Island home with an abusive mother and alcoholic father, his move to his uncle's farm in upstate New York, and his difficult choice between his broken family and his future.
language: English
title: What We Lost
titlecomplete: What We Lost
genres: Fiction
ratings_count: 110
awards: awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Randy Shilts Award
category: Gay Nonfiction
publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt