Teagan's review
All Souls: A Family Story from Southie (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
by Michael Patrick MacDonald (Goodreads author!)
Teagan's review
All Souls: A Family Story from Southie (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by Michael Patrick MacDonald (Goodreads author!)
Teagan's review
rating:
It actually took me quite awhile to finish this book. Not because it was bad, but because the stark reality of it was something that I found so emotional that I found myself feeling a bit lost. He wrote so emotionally about his family, giving the reader a glimpse into a world that most of us have could never imagine. But I found that I was relating my own life to those events that Mr. MacDonald experienced. I remember the busing problems in South Boston and the evolution of our generation. The first book I ever labeled a "keeper" was S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders. All Souls is going on my "keeper" shelf for the same reasons. Any book that can elicit that kind of emotion long after I've closed the book deserves that distinction. And my hat goes off to him for writing a book so honest.
