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Another Bullshit Night in Suck City

Name: Another Bullshit Night in Suck City
Author: Nick Flynn

Another Bullshit Night in Suck City is a memoir by playwright and poet Nick Flynn, describing Flynn's reunion with his estranged father, Jonathan, an alcoholic resident of the homeless shelter where Nick was a social worker in the late 1980s. The title refers to Jonathan's description of homeless life in Boston. It was published by W. W. Norton in September 2004.

“There are many ways to drown, only the most obvious wave their arms as they're going under.”

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“Who doesn't want to just disappear, at some point in the day, in a year, to just step off the map and float?”

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“Alcohol is the river we sit on the banks of, contemplating. Sometimes we watch ourselves float past, sometimes we watch ourselves sink.”

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“Some part of me knew he would show up, that if I stood in one place long enough he would find me, like you're taught to do when you're lost. But they never taught us what to do if both of you are lost, and you both end up in the same place, waiting.”

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