Sometimes Cruel

This title is best described in the Kirkus Review that follows: "A collection of stories illuminates Koubourlis' travels, beliefs, and experiences with love and pain in this memoir. Buried within the self-described "eclectic" author and academic's collection of intimately autobiographical stories are the truths that have made him "fortunate in many respects." The physical violence he and his brother endured at the hands of his punishing father, whom he dubs "my family's beater-in-chief," inspire