"I was the kind of kid who was a target, because I was small, I wore glasses, I was a bright kid - I used words like 'actually' and 'not necessarily,'" he said.Ī young man home from the Army would routinely beat up Dubus' 13-year-old brother. He turned out to be the kid who skipped school, took drugs and ran from bullies. The family moved from place to place, always in search of cheaper rent.ĭubus rarely saw his father. They grew up poor, his mother struggling to make ends meet. "The house was full of a lot of fighting and yelling, and a lot of tears over dead soldiers in Vietnam, and Martin Luther King was killed, and Robert Kennedy was killed, and my family broke up - it's really a year that I associate with good men getting shot in the head and my father leaving," Dubus said in a Radio Boston interview. Facebook Email This article is more than 12 years old.Īndre Dubus III was a child when his family left Iowa for the mill towns of the Merrimack Valley, in 1966.
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