The choreographer Stephen Petronio does not like to go backward. He says that moving in reverse — say, on a train — makes him feel mentally disturbed and physically ill. Nevertheless, there is a lot of backward in his life these days.

At 58, he has written a memoir. A lovingly rendered account of an Italian-American childhood in suburban New Jersey, it is the story of a bookish boy not quite at home in that world.

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