My Dreams Out in the Street - by Kim Addonizio (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>Rita Jackson is a young woman on the skids, spending her time in shelters and on the dot-com-drunk streets of late 1990s San Francisco.</b> She's a young woman haunted by the murder of her mother when she was thirteen, and a young bride haunted by the disappearance of her husband, Jimmy, who split after a nasty argument more than a year earlier. Together Jimmy and Rita were slipping into drugs and hard times. Rita is filled with feelings of guilt and failure, and the hope that she will one day and Jimmy. She doesn't know that he is still in the city, still in love with her, waiting tables in an expensive restaurant while trying to get a foothold in the straight life. <p/> When Rita witnesses the aftermath of a murder, her own life is endangered. She becomes involved with Gary Shepard, a married criminal investigator drawn to the dark side of this young woman. What unfolds is a story of three flawed people struggling with themselves as much as with their circumstances, as each of them is pulled more deeply and dangerously into the consequences of their decisions. When a drunken night leads Jimmy to jeopardize his second and last chance, it seems unlikely that these sweet, damaged people will ever come to anything, let alone find and -- miracle of miracles -- save one another. <p/> But fate, in Addonizio's hands, works in strange and beautiful geometries. And redemption, she tells us, is never impossible.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Kim Addonizio writes like Lucinda Williams sings, with hard-earned grit and grace about the heart's longing for love and redemption, the kind that can only come in the darkest dark when survival no longer even seems likely. "My Dreams Out In The Street" is one of the finest American novels I've read in some time, a night-blooming flower you will not be able to put down, so honestly rendered you'll wonder, as you turn the last page, why you feel so much hope." <P> -- Andre Dubus III, Author of "House Of Sand And Fog"<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Kim Addonizio</b> is the author of several acclaimed poetry collections, including <i>What Is This Thing Called Love</i> and <i>Tell Me, </i> which was a finalist for the 2000 National Book Award. Her poetry and fiction have appeared widely in literary journals and anthologies, including <i>The Paris Review, Microfiction, Narrative, The Mississippi Review, </i> and others. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and two NEA grants, Addonizio lives in Oakland, Californi
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