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Such Kindness: A Novel
Such Kindness: A Novel | Andre Dubus III
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A working-class white man takes a terrible fall. Tom Lowes identity and his pride are invested in the work he does with his back and his hands. He designed and built his familys dream home, working extra hours to pay off the adjustable rate mortgage he took on the property, convinced he is making every sacrifice for the happiness of his wife and son. Until, in a moment of fatigued inattention, shingling a roof in too-bright sunlight, he falls. In constant pain, addicted to painkillers at the cost of his relationships with his wife and son, Tom slowly comes to realize that he can never work again. If he is not a working man, who is he? He is not, he believes, the kind of person who lives in subsidized housing, though that is where he has ended up. He is not the kind of person who hatches a scheme to commit convenience-check fraud, together with neighbors he considers lowlifes, until he finds himself stealing his bankers trash. Who is Tom Lowe, and who will he become? Can he find a way to reunite hands and heart, mind and spirit, to be once again a giver and not just a taker, to forge a self-acceptance deeper than pride? Andre Dubus IIIs soulful cast includes Trina, the struggling mom next door who sells her own plasma to get by; Dawn, the tough-talking owner of the local hairdressing salon; Jamie, a well-meaning pothead college student ready to stick it to the man; and a mix of strangers and neighbors who will never know the role they played in changing a life. To one mans painful moral journey, Dubus brings compassion with an edge of dark absurdity, forging a novel as absorbing as it is profound.
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Suet624
Suet624
Such Kindness: A Novel | Andre Dubus III
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The author reads this book & it adds an extra element of connection for me to the story. His voice & accent sound like any of my next-door neighbors or friends who might be down on their luck. Tom, a man who has struggled since he‘s lost his wife and construction company due to a fall off a roof, is in constant pain and yet tries to help his neighbors while staying off opioids. Tom was definitely someone I rooted for and felt close to.

BarbaraBB Great review. I haven‘t read him in a long time but loved House of Sand and Fog in the 90s (I think) and read more of his books afterwards. 24h
Suet624 @BarbaraBB I can‘t remember if I‘ve read any of his other books. But now I‘m gonna have to track some down. 24h
Leftcoastzen I haven‘t read this one , I loved Townie & House of Sand And Fog 23h
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Suet624 @Leftcoastzen oh, good to know! Thanks. 23h
AmyG I also loved House of Sand and Fog. 21h
Suet624 @AmyG @BarbaraBB @Leftcoastzen I just read the description of House of Sand and Fog and I‘ve read it! I remember liking it a lot. I hadn‘t realized it was this author. Now I‘ll have to look for Townie. 21h
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LeafingThroughLife
LeafingThroughLife
Such Kindness | Andre Dubus
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Once a builder and a family man, Tom Lowe Jr finds himself approaching rock bottom after falling from a roof. Unable to work, Tom lost his wife and his son as he spiraled into addiction and has crash landed in subsidized housing feeling angry and useless. When the bottom rises up to meet him, Tom…bounces. With his eyes opened to the people around him, he begins to learn to play the hand he was dealt. ⬇️

LeafingThroughLife All the grace that was missing from House of Sand and Fog is here in spades, almost to the point of being overdone. Dubus draws human pain and hopelessness so realistically that it demands to be tempered. In House of Sand and Fog it wasn‘t, but in this book Dubus gives grace along with humanity to his characters as they learn to care for each other in their own flawed ways. This book and Tom‘s lessons feel important. Glad I gave Dubus another try. 3mo
BarbaraBB Interesting. I loved House of Sand and Fog and I guess you didn‘t. I am now very interested in this one! 3mo
LeafingThroughLife @BarbaraBB I thought House of Sand and Fog was really well written but it was so unrelentingly bleak that my lasting impression of it is of extreme frustration. If it hadn‘t been good, I wouldn‘t have cared enough to be frustrated, but I couldn‘t love it because of that. I think this one did a similarly good job of making me care about struggling characters, but there‘s a little more hope baked in. Would love to hear what you think if you read it! 3mo
BarbaraBB Thanks! I much appreciate your heads up and will stack the book! 3mo
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NatalieR
NatalieR
Such Kindness: A Novel | Andre Dubus III
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This novel took me on an unexpected journey through the life of Tom Lowe. Dubus‘ narrative style of gradually revealing Tom‘s character— the man he was, the man he has become, and the man he wants to be— kept me engaged in the story.

Full review at abookandadog.com/blog/such-kindness

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ChrisBohjalian
ChrisBohjalian
Such Kindness | Andre Dubus
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Bedtime reading.
Good-night.

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Booksandtea23
Booksandtea23
Such Kindness | Andre Dubus

“And isn‘t it remarkable how love can be found again. That new lives can come together and start something that might be even better than what was lost. It‘s like love is always with us. Like it‘s simply floating in the atmosphere and we just have to walk through it and breathe it in again.”

- Such Kindness by Andre Dubus III

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rmaclean4
rmaclean4
Such Kindness | Andre Dubus
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Great audio book read by the author. A philosophical meditation on being alive while impoverished. This book is in conversation with Poverty By America and Demon Copperhead. Loved it. 5 🌟

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