![]() Praise for The Outside Boy "Some of the greatness of Angela's Ashes dampens these pages, maybe as much as is possible for an author for whom this is fiction, not memoir. But then the discovery of an old newspaper photograph, and a long-buried secret from his mother's mysterious past, changes his life forever. As Christy struggles to find his way amid the more conventional lives of his new classmates, he starts to question who he is and where he belongs. ![]() But still, always, they are treated as outsiders. His father decides to settle briefly, in a town, where Christy and his cousin can receive proper schooling and prepare for their first communions. The wandering life is the only one Christy has ever known, but when his grandfather dies, everything changes. ![]() ![]() Christy carries with him a burden of guilt as well, haunted by the story of his mother's death in childbirth. Ireland, 1959 Young Christopher Hurley is a tinker, a Pavee gypsy, who roams with his father and extended family from town to town, carrying all their worldly possessions in their wagons. ![]() About the Book A poignant debut novel of an Irish gypsy boy's childhood in the 1950's by theauthor of the bestselling memoir "A Rip in Heaven."īook Synopsis A poignant, coming of age novel about an Irish gypsy boy's childhood in the 1950's from the national bestselling author of A Rip in Heaven and American Dirt. ![]()
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