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Title: The Polish Kerouac
Review: Ive just finished speed-reading the last pages of The Coast of Chicago (I had my public library deliver it to me via their shut-in service & theyll be picking it up today.) My Polish-speaking psychotherapist (from Chicago) suggested I read it because Im half-Polish myself (maternally; my Polish-speaking mother was even a postulant of the Polish-speaking order of nuns of St. Felix, the Felicians.) Reading Dybek is a frightening & disturbing experience for me because the Polish Roman Catholic image-obsessions he writes about were once just beneath my skin, too. Dybek & I are the same age (b. 1942); but I grew up in Lynn MA. I had once thought Jack Kerouac wrote for all working-class Roman Catholics, but I now know Dybek writes for Polish Roman Catholics, & is the Polish Kerouac. I hope he writes a lot more stories & also tries writing novels.
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