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Fresh Air

Carrying On After A Life-Changing Accident

Fresh Air

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4.434.4K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

How do you get on with life after an accident that leads to disability and chronic pain? That's the central question in Andre Dubus III's novel, Such Kindness. He talks about the injuries he faced when he was a carpenter, and how his relationship changed with his father after the senior Dubus was struck by a car and never walked again. His previous books include Townie and House of Sand and Fog.

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This is Fresh Air, I'm Tanya Mosley.

0:27.2

We're going to listen back to an interview with Andre Dubuce the third about writing, growing

0:32.3

up amidst violence and poverty, dealing with chronic pain

0:36.1

and experiencing the divine. He has a new collection of personal essays titled,

0:40.8

Ghost Dogs on Killers and Ken.

0:44.0

Terry spoke with him last year

0:45.8

when he had just published the novel Such Kindness.

0:48.7

Here's Terry's introduction.

0:50.7

An accident that causes a severe injury and disability changes a life in an

0:55.9

instant and the chronic pain can last for the rest of your life. So how do you carry

1:00.9

on? That's the central question in the new novel by my guest Andre Dubuis the third.

1:06.0

The main character, Tom, is a builder who falls off a roof, breaking his pelvis and hips.

1:12.0

Those bones are held together by pins and long

1:15.4

after the fall the fires around the pins are still raging. He's on disability

1:20.7

living in Section 8 subsidized housing, thinking he doesn't belong here, he doesn't

1:25.8

belong with these people. The psychic pain, spiritual void, and the anger and bitterness are

1:31.6

constants. DeBuse had personal experiences he could. and the

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