Recollections on a Road Between

Autobiographers typically mine memory to write of a struggle for place. For some that place is wealth fame or power. For others it's overcoming the wounds of addiction or an abusive past to find a place of stability. As compelling as those stories can be this autobiography is different. Dupuy comes from a large intact Catholic family in which he was well-cared for. While he explores memory and writes of a struggle for place he finds place and person not necessarily within but between established boundaries. He restlessly explores spaces between and among narratives of family nation career religion and culture. And he finds glimpses of an elusive and wounded subject--himself. A strong sense of longing a sense of not quite being at home--a type of woundedness--pervades his story. Such places reveal themselves to him not as deficits not something to be corrected and set straight; instead he sees them as a sort of home despite their shaky between nature. In these spaces new contours of self others and world have opened to him.