The Outside Boy by Jeanine Cummins5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Keith Donohue, author of The Stolen Child The Outside Boy is such a powerful read. ![]() Cummins captures that world in pitch perfect prose, charming and beguiling till the story nearly breaks your heart. But then the discovery of an old newspaper photograph, and a long-buried secret from his mother’s mysterious past, changes his life forever. The Outside Boy is a poignant, coming of age novel about an Irish gypsy boy’s childhood in the 1950’s from Jeanine Cummins, the national bestselling author of A Rip in Heaven and American Dirt. The Outside Boy is a poignant and magical tale about the travelling people in Ireland, a way of life all but vanished. But still, always, they are treated as outsiders.Īs Christy struggles to find his way amid the more conventional lives of his new classmates, he starts to question who he is and where he belongs. His father decides to settle briefly, in a town, where Christy and his cousin can receive proper schooling and prepare for their first communions. The wandering life is the only one Christy has ever known, but when his grandfather dies, everything changes. Christy carries with him a burden of guilt as well, haunted by the story of his mother’s death in childbirth. Ireland, 1959: Young Christopher Hurley is a tinker, a Pavee gypsy, who roams with his father and extended family from town to town, carrying all their worldly possessions in their wagons. A poignant, coming of age novel about an Irish gypsy boy’s childhood in the 1950’s from the national bestselling author of A Rip in Heaven and American Dirt. ![]()
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