eBook - ePub

Easter Rising

Name: Easter Rising
ISBN: 9780547527239

A Memoir of Roots and Rebellion

Michael Patrick MacDonald,

256 pages
English
ePUB (mobile friendly)
Available on iOS & Android

eBook - ePub

Easter Rising

A Memoir of Roots and Rebellion

Michael Patrick MacDonald,

About this book

An "alternately funny and heartbreaking" memoir of leaving—and finding—home, by the author of All Souls: A Family Story from Southie ( Newsweek).

In All Souls, Michael Patrick MacDonald told the story of the loss of four of his siblings to the violence, poverty, and gangsterism of Irish South Boston. In Easter Rising, he tells the story of how he got out.

Desperate to avoid the "normal" life of Southie, Michael first reinvents himself in the burgeoning punk rock movement and the thrilling vortex of Johnny Rotten, Mission of Burma, and the Clash. At nineteen, he escapes further, to Paris and then London. Finally, out of money, he contacts his Irish immigrant grandfather—who offers a loan, but only if Michael will visit Ireland.

It is on this reluctant journey to his ancestral land that Michael will find a chance at reconciliation—with his heritage, his neighborhood, and his family—and, ultimately, a way forward.

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