All souls
Subtitle: a family story from Southie
By: Michael Patrick MacDonald.
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
Subjects: MacDonald, Michael Patrick -- Childhood and youth; McDonald family; Irish Americans -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Biography; Irish American families -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Biography; South Boston (Boston, Mass.) -- Biography; Boston (Mass.) -- Biography; South Boston (Boston, Mass.) -- Social life and customs; South Boston (Boston, Mass.) -- Social conditions
Genres: Biography.
Description: "The anti-busing riots of 1974 forever changed Southie, Boston's working class Irish community, branding it as a violent, racist enclave. Michael Patrick MacDonald grew up in Southie's Old Colony housing project. He describes the way this world within a world felt to the troubled yet keenly gifted observer he was even as a child: "[as if] we were protected, as if the whole neighborhood was watching our backs for threats, watching for all the enemies we could never really define.""--BOOK JACKET.

"But the threats - poverty, drugs, a shadowy gangster world - were real. MacDonald lost four of his siblings to violence and poverty. All Souls is heart-breaking testimony to lives lost too early, and the story of how a place so filled with pain could still be "the best place in the world.""--BOOK JACKET.