All souls

Description

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.

First Sentence

"I remember hating having to cross over the Broadway Bridge again, having to leave the peninsula neighborhood and go back to my apartment in downtown Boston."

Excerpt

"I remember hating having to cross over the Broadway Bridge again, having to leave the peninsula neighborhood and go back to my apartment in downtown Boston."

Subjects

Genres

• Biography

Other Editions

• All souls: a family story from SouthieISIS Pub.2000-01-01
• All soulsBeacon Press1999-01-01
• All soulsBeacon Press1999-01-01
• All SoulsPaperbackISIS Large Print Books2002-02-01
• All SoulsPaperbackBeacon Press2007-10-04
• All SoulseBookBeacon Press2008-01-01