All Souls: A Family Story from Southie
Jul 2010 · Sold by Beacon Press
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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.
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4.2
52 reviews
Sharon Dunn
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May 16, 2015
Poignant, raw, compassionate. At times the stories seem to hit rock bottom, but in the end you not only see hope but that it was really there all along.
richard black
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April 17, 2015
Lived for a while in MA and always heard about Southies and Whitey. A good look into what it's actually all about instead of media stories.
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Emma Harrington
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November 14, 2014
This book is one of the best books I have ever written
About the author
Michael Patrick MacDonald helped launch Boston’s successful gun-buyback program and is founder of the South Boston Vigil Group. He has won the American Book Award, a New England Literary Lights Award, and the Myers Center Outstanding Book Award administered by the Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights in North America. His second book, the highly acclaimed memoir Easter Rising, was published in 2006, and will be available in paperback from Houghton Mifflin in March, 2008. He is currently writing the screenplay of All Souls for director Ron Shelton. MacDonald lives in Brooklyn.
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