A Moving Memoir
A couple of days ago I read a memoir for the library summer reading challenge. It was very moving and really changed my perspective on my own personal day to day struggles. This book is about the author, Frank McCourt, and his experience of growing up in Ireland from 1930s-1940s. His father was almost always drunk and the family is always on the brink of starvation. This memoir is unique in that it doesn't contain the appropriate quotation marks which might bother people. I know it bothers me when I read a Cormac McCarthy book a couple years ago, but I would encourage you to give this book a try. I highly recommended it. It caused me to be so grateful for the life I live now and my own growing up years. This book is also mostly written in the voice of a child which really shed light on so many things that kids can see that seem so hypocritical and at the end of the day it is. Which brings us to the Catholic church. McCourt doesn't appear to look very kindly on the