The Tender Bar: A Memoir

When Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, J.R. Moehringer was growing up, his mother was often broke and the two were forced to move in and out of his grandfather's tumbledown house. While his mother despised living in the filthy, overcrowded residence, J.R. was captivated by the cast of characters and misfits that gathered in the bar to tell their stories and forget their worries. Eventually the alphas along the bar became his surrogate fathers. providing a kind of parent-by-committee. This place became a sanctuary to him providing the setting for a classic American story of self-invention and escape, of fierce love between a single mother and an only son. 370p.