“Readers who want a gut-churning biography will enjoy “My Thinning Years” by Jon Derek Croteau (Hazelden, September). It’s the story of the author’s early life of trying to deny who he was to appease an abusive father and the empowering reason that propelled him to push himself away from anger and abuse toward an acceptance of self and a better life. There’s emotion in this book (you might even get teary a time or two) but its gentle humor and the happy ending you just know is coming might make that bearable.”
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