I finally finished Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt last night. This book was really hard for me to get into. I probably had to read 100 pages before I started to find the story interesting. It was a memoir of Frank's life growing up poor in Ireland. His family was poor, father was a drunk, siblings kept dying, other relatives wanted nothing to do with his family, etc. Basically there was nothing good about his life. Just when they thought something good would happen, something else bad happened. It was very sad and I couldn't help but feel sorry for Frank and his brothers. The thing that made me the most upset was that the grandparents and aunt wouldn't help Frank's family.
I can't say that this was one of my favorite books, but I'm glad I read it. It wasn't at all what I expected. I guess from the title I was expecting that the mother, Angela, would die. Even though I thought the book was just okay, I am curious to see what the sequel 'Tis is like.
459 pages
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