The Stardust Lounge: Stories from a Boy's Adolescence (repost)
The Stardust Lounge: Stories from a Boy's Adolescence By Deborah Digges
Publisher: An ch or 2002 | 240 Pages | ISBN: 0385720939 | EPUB | 4 MB
Publisher: An ch or 2002 | 240 Pages | ISBN: 0385720939 | EPUB | 4 MB
"Thanks for a wonderful childhood!" Stephen Digges tells his mother as he hugs her goodbye in front of his New York City college dorm, and it's a measure of just how persuasive and potent her account of his difficult adolescence is that we know exactly what he means. At 13, Stephen was running away, stealing his mother's car, carrying guns, doing drugs, and getting into trouble with the law and in school. Already divorced from Stephen's father, Digges saw her son's problems break up her second marriage and heard society, her family, and her neighbors tell her she was too easy on her son, that fatherless boys needed "tough love" and discipline. But Digges had the courage to listen to a highly unconventional therapist who urged her, "Join him in his anger at life…. Don't educate him about what he should have done.