The McCourt brothers write about differing aspects of their immigration to America and subsequent lives in New York.
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"Jokes are the afterbirth of humor."
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Frank McCourt was born in Brooklyn, New York to Irish immigrants. At the age of 6, his family returned to Ireland, and he spent the remainder of his childhood in Limerick. McCourt came back to New York at the age of 19, and aside from a stint in the U.S. Army, he has lived in one of the five boroughs ever since. McCourt held a wide variety of jobs as a young man, including longshoreman and a stint feeding the birds in the lobby of the Biltmore Hotel (he was demoted when the birds started dying.) more...
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Brooklyn, New York, New York, Middle Atlantic States, Northeastern States, United States,
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This book was awesome. I could honestly relate to the story. The author was an immigrant from Ireland. I was sobbing the whole time I was reading it. It reminds me so much of my past and being an immigrant and all. I love this book...love it so much that I owned it. I must of read it so many times.