All souls
About this book
A breakaway bestseller since its first printing, All Souls takes us deep into Michael Patrick MacDonald’s Southie, the proudly insular neighborhood with the highest concentration of white poverty in America. Rocked by Whitey Bulger’s crime schemes and busing riots, MacDonald’s Southie is populated by sharply hewn characters like his Ma, a miniskirted, accordion-playing single mother who endures the deaths of four of her eleven children. Nearly suffocated by his grief and his community’s code of silence, MacDonald tells his family story here with gritty but moving honesty.
Subjects
- biography
- biography & autobiography
- boston (mass.), biography
- boston (mass.), social conditions
- boston (mass.), social life and customs
- childhood and youth
- irish american families
- irish americans
- new york times bestseller
- new york times reviewed
- nonfiction
- nyt:e-book-nonfiction=2013-04-07
- social conditions
- social life and customs