All Souls: A Family Story from Southie by Michael Patrick MacDonald is now available for free ePub download or online reading.
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Michael Patrick MacDonald grew up in ‘the best place in the world’–the Irish-American Old Colony projects of South Boston–where 85% of the residents collect welfare in an area with the highest concentration of impoverished whites in the U.S.
In All Souls, MacDonald takes us deep into the secret heart of Southie. With radiant insight, he opens up a contradictory world, where residents are besieged by gangs and crime but refuse to admit any problems, remaining fiercely loyal to their community. MacDonald also introduces us to the unforgettable people who inhabit this proud neighborhood.
We meet his mother, Ma MacDonald, an accordion-playing, spiked-heel-wearing, indomitable mother to all, Whitey Bulger, the lord of Southie, gangster and father figure, protector and punisher, and Michael’s beloved siblings, nearly half of whom were lost forever to drugs, murder, or suicide.
MacDonald’s story is ultimately one of overcoming the racist, classist ideology he was born into. It’s also a searing portrayal of life in a poor, white neighborhood plagued by violence and crime and deeply in denial about it.. First published September 25, 1999. Original format: Paperback. Pages: 263. #all-souls-ebook #all-souls-epub #read #download
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