Half a Life
Darin Strauss
McSweeney’s
Half my life ago, I killed a girl.”<BR><BR>So begins Darin Strauss’ <I>Half a Life</I>, the true story of how one outing in his father’s Oldsmobile resulted in the death of a classmate and the beginning of a different, darker life for the author. We follow Strauss as he explores his startling pastcollision, funeral, the queasy drama of a high-stakes court caseand what starts as a personal tale of a tragic event opens into the story of how to live with a very hard fact: we can try our human best in the crucial moment, and it might not be good enough. <I>Half a Life</I> is a nakedly honest, ultimately hopeful examination of guilt, responsibility, and living with the past.<BR>