Another Bullshit Night in Suck City

"Sometimes I'd see my father, walking past my building on his way to
another nowhere. I could have given him a key, offered a piece of my
floor. But if I let him inside the line between us would blur, my own
slow-motion car wreck would speed up." Nick Flynn met his father for
the third time when he was twenty-seven years old, working as a
caseworker in a homeless shelter in Boston. As a teenager he'd received
letters from this stranger, a self-proclaimed poet and con man doing
time in federal prison for bank robbery. Nick, his own life precariously
unsettled, was living alternately in a ramshackle boat and in a
warehouse that was once a strip joint. In bold, dazzling prose, Another Bullshit Night in Suck City
(a phrase Flynn senior uses to describe his life on the streets) tells
the story of two lives and the trajectory that led Nick and his father
into that homeless shelter, onto those streets, and finally to each
other.