Author: Joey Ciaramitaro

Hi joey,
It’s Arwen from The Bookstore.  I was wondering if you could help us out.  We have a few big readings coming up and would love to get the word out there.
Our first one is on Friday, May 10th with local author, Domenica Ruta.  Domenica
is from Danvers and her memoir, “With or Without You” has been getting tons of rave reviews and publicity.  I will attach a blurb from her website so you can get an idea of what it is about:(please forgive my technically challenged format, my cousin Jenn should be doing this :))

“Domenica Ruta grew up in a working-class, unforgiving Italian town north of Boston where in the seventeenth century women were hanged as witches. Her mother, Kathi, a notorious figure in this hardscrabble place, was a drug addict and sometime dealer whose life swung between welfare and riches, whose highbrow taste was at odds with her base appetites. And yet she managed, despite the chaos she created, to instill in her daughter the idea that art—via a classic film or a classical education—could transcend this life of undying grudges, self-inflicted misfortune, and the crooked moral code that Kathi and her cohorts lived by. With or Without You is the story of Domenica’s unconventional coming of age—a darkly hilarious chronicle of a misfit ’90s childhood and the necessary and painful act of breaking away, and of overcoming her own addictions and demons in the process.”
“In a brilliant stylistic feat, Domenica Ruta has written a powerful, inspiring, compulsively readable, and finally redemptive story about loving and leaving.”
The reading will be at 7 pm on Friday, May 10th. 

Our address is 61 Main St. and our phone # is 1-978-281-1548.
We can also have books signed for people if they can not make reading….
Thank you so much Joey!
Arwen Severance