The Good Hand: A Memoir of Work, Brotherhood and Transformation in an American Boomtown

Author(s): Michael Patrick Flanagan Smith

Essays & memoir

Michael Patrick Smith grew up in a ramshackle farmhouse where his father beat the walls and threw dinner plates. As a restless young man left unmoored by the crashing economy, Smith cut a path to North Dakota to rent a mattress on a flophouse floor. Sleeping boot to beard with the other rough-edged men looking to earn a cent drilling for oil, Smith wanted the work to burn him clean - of his violent upbringing, his demons, his disjointed, doomed relationships. He did not expect, among these quick-fisted, foul-mouthed hands, to find a community. The Good Hand is a memoir of danger and exhaustion, of suffering, loneliness and grit, of masculinity and of learning how to reconcile yourself to yourself.

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General Fields

  • : 9780008399443
  • : HarperCollins Publishers Limited
  • : Harper Element
  • : March 2021
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Michael Patrick Flanagan Smith
  • : Paperback
  • : 2103