I read Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt. McCourt was a Pulitzer Prize winning author in 1997. He writes non-fiction based on his life. Angela’s Ashes is an autobiography about his childhood experiences. McCourt lived in Limerick, Ireland with his poor, immigrant family. He moved to New York City at age 19. He worked as a high school English teacher for 45 years. In 1935 it was common for Irish families to come to America; instead the McCourts …showed first 75 words of 1709 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1709 total…that was going on when the subject and years seemed to pass with the turn of a page. One particular example is close to the middle of the book when the boys go from being school aged children to teenagers looking for ways to help support their mother. All in all this is a good book, it brings the plight of human suffering home and has some great morals that still stand as truth today.