Domenica Ruta was born and raised in Danvers, Massachusetts. She is a graduate of Oberlin College and holds an MFA from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin. She was a finalist for the Keene Prize for Literature and has been awarded residencies at Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, the Blue Mountain Center, Jentel, and Hedgebrook.
“A luminous, layered accomplishment.”—The New York Times Book
Review
“A singular new coming-of-age memoir traces one girl’s twisting
path up from mean streets (and parents) to the reflective life of a
writer. . . . The burgeoning canon of literary memoir . . . begets
another winner in Domenica Ruta’s searing With or Without You. . .
. [A] gloriously gutsy memory-work.”—Elle
“Stunning . . . comes across as a bleaker, funnier, R-rated version
of The Glass Castle and marks the arrival of a blazing new voice in
literature.”—Entertainment Weekly
“Valiant and heartbreaking.”—Bust
“Powerful . . . Ruta found an unconventional voice, a scary good
mixture of erudition and hardened street smarts. Her writing is
also, as they say in Danvers, wicked funny—though in her case
wicked is more an adjective than an intensifier. . . . [With or
Without You] hums with jangled energy and bristles with sharp
edges. . . . Ruta writes with unflinching honesty.”—Slate
“Bracingly funny and poignant.”—The Boston Globe
“Exceedingly powerful.”—Booklist
“Domenica Ruta is a real and excellent writer who has language by
the throat. She writes with big beauty and drives her story with
huge humanism, empathy, and humor.”—Gabrielle Hamilton, author of
Blood, Bones & Butter
“Difficult childhoods are plentiful, the talent to transform
adversity into art in short supply. Unflinching in its regard,
forgiving in its humor, With or Without You is that rare thing, a
story you think you know transformed into one you have to read to
the end.”—Kathryn Harrison, author of Enchantments
“In the world of memoir, Mary Karr’s and Geoffrey Wolff’s
exceptional books burn and brighten, like actual stars among
strings of tinsel. With or Without You is like that. I will read
whatever Domenica Ruta writes.”—Amy Bloom, author of Where the God
of Love Hangs Out
“Freakishly brilliant, brilliantly freakish, this is one of the
best memoirs I have ever read. Domenica Ruta has done something
every artist with a failed family must do: She has created
herself.”—Gary Shteyngart, author of Super Sad True Love Story
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