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. The anti-busing riots of 1974 forever changed Southie, Boston s working class Irish community, branding it as a violent, racist enclave. Michael Patrick MacDonald grew up in Southie s Old Colony housing project. He describes the way this world within a world felt to the troubled yet keenly gifted observer he was even as a child: as if] we were protected, as if the whole...
A breakaway bestseller since its first printing, All Souls takes us deep into Michael Patrick MacDonald s Southie, the proudly insular neighbor...