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Angela's Ashes is a memoir of a poor Irish boy who grew up partly in New York and partly in Ireland. I made my way through only half of it, in part because of the difficulty I have reading about the pain and helplessness of drunks. The (first part of the) book is written from Frank's perspective as a young boy, so the behavior of his parents, siblings, and neighbors are all filtered through eyes that take everything as "normal." His father is an alcoholic who as often as not spends his meagre paycheck from the rare job on drink, leaving the family to fend for themselves. The book was perfectly well written and many people would find it compelling. I just found it too painful to read.
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