Poet Kelle Groom unflinchingly tells the story of her illegitimate child, tendered for adoption and dead before age two. As a teenaged mother in thrall to alcohol, Groom almost spiraled out of control were it not for unexpected reserves of strength, bolstered by a passion for poetry. Infant Tommy, reborn through his mother's empathy, is the pearl sprung from the bitterness of Groom's early life, elegized in a memoir reminescent of Mary Karr's Lit.
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