A review by tswanson103
Leave Out the Tragic Parts: A Grandfather's Search for a Boy Lost to Addiction by Dave Kindred

5.0

This is a beautiful memorial of a grandfather’s love, a tragic tale of the grips of addiction, and a, at once both haunting and whimsical, story of life on the road. I can always tell when a book truly impacted me by my reaction to the acknowledgements, and this one made me teary. In those acknowledgements, Kindred mentions that he wanted his editors to help him make this narrative “sing” and there’s really no other way to describe it.