Uplifting story of how one family survived challenges and setbacks of the Great Depression, World War II and the Postwar years; how they beat poverty, mental illness, and alcoholism. A picture of their thirteen-year experience in public housing in the midst of an ethnic urban village in the 1940s-1950s. Told with engaging candor and humor. REVIEWS: "What a great gift Joe Doolin Has given us with South Boston Boy. A remarkably clear-eyed and unsentimental memoir of growing up in South Boston, through turmoil and tragedy, emerging stronger and more humanely decent. Joe Doolin, like many of...

Stalked by fear amid the shadows of midcentury Boston, the young divorcee from the projects harbors a deadly secret about her Brahmin boss. When security guards fail to protect her, we are led on a thrilling romp from a stodgy early mutual fund start-up, through pulsating Cuba at the dawn of the revolution. Half a century later, her grown-up office boy completes the jig-saw puzzle. This sequel to "South Boston Boy" is inspired by true events.