Donald Ray Pollock, "Real Life"

Drunk dad starts a fight in the bathroom at the drive-in. Son also gets in a fight. Dad is proud.

(from Knockemstiff)

Poor kid. Good story though. This is the first of the 18 connected stories in this collection. For the purposes of a site like this, an island is better than an archipelago, but this is a promising start.

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