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092    BIO|bMACHER 
100 1  Macher, Tom,|d1977-|eauthor. 
245 10 Halfway :|ba memoir /|cTom Macher. 
250    First Scribner hardcover edition. 
264  1 New York :|bScribner,|c2018. 
300    viii, 273 pages ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
520    "From a searing new literary voice, a raw, compulsively 
       readable memoir about a young man seeking hope, community,
       and ultimately recovery from addiction in a series of 
       halfway houses and boys' homes--the first book to so 
       vividly capture this world.  In his late teens Tom Macher 
       rebelled against a world that seemed stacked against him. 
       Raised in a broken family and estranged from an absentee 
       father suffering with AIDS, Macher turned to alcohol to 
       escape the painful loneliness of his reality.  In quick 
       succession, he is kicked out of school, and then his 
       mother's house, sent to a boys' home in Montana, and later,
       a halfway house in a truck-stop town of Louisiana. It was 
       there that Macher encounters a community of young men 
       struggling to survive--outcasts and thieves, liars and ex-
       cons, men seeking redemption, men running from the past. 
       As he moves further away from boyhood and embraces a hard-
       won sobriety, these men--the broken, the hardscrabble, the
       near gone--become his salvation.  Macher captures the 
       trials of sobriety--suicide, death, recovery--and the 
       unusual beauty that forms in the bonds of those who 
       suffer. In visceral, striking prose, he introduces the 
       unforgettable characters he meets along the way, from a 
       former child actor, a young teen struggling with 
       schizophrenia, a tough-love addiction counselor, a sex-
       addicted social worker, to Matt O, who became Macher's 
       loyal friend and wingman. Raw, disarming, frenetic, and 
       subversive, Halfway is a brutally honest portrait of the 
       world of down-and-out recovering alcoholics, and a story 
       of how, in their darkest hour, these men create the bonds 
       that form a family"--|cProvided by publisher. 
600 10 Macher, Tom,|d1977- 
650  0 Alcoholics|zUnited States|vBiography. 
650  0 Men|xAlcohol use|zUnited States|vBiography. 
650  0 Alcoholics|xRehabilitation|zUnited States|vBiography. 
650  0 Halfway houses|zUnited States.