Angela's Ashes
by Frank McCourt
McCourt's Pulitzer-winning account of a Limerick childhood of hunger, damp, dead siblings, an alcoholic father and a mother begging for charity, told with such humor and lack of self-pity that it reads as comedy as often as tragedy. It is a lesson in how to tell a terrible story without bitterness.
Read it if…
you want a masterpiece of resilience told with humor.
Skip it if…
you are in a dark place; the deprivation is relentless.
Three things you will actually use
- Humor is survival.
- Poverty is not destiny.
- Tell it without self-pity; the facts are enough.
Do this first
Read the first page and notice how voice turns misery into something bearable.
Our verdict
A masterpiece.
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