SUMMARY "When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood." So begins the luminous memoir “Angela’s Ashes” of author Frank McCourt. Born in Depression-era Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants and raised in …showed first 75 words of 2114 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2114 total…harsh realization that poverty is everywhere, and you can never escape it. It forces us to cherish, that much more, everything that we have. After reading this novel, I was much more grateful for the things that I had. It was an excellent book to read. It’s many sad points lowered my spirits, but then they were uplifted again with the author’s humor in this novel. I would recommend this book to anyone.