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All Souls' Night -- Freedoms -- Ghetto heaven -- Fight the power -- Looking for Whitey -- August -- Holy water -- Stand-up guy -- Exile -- Justice -- Vigil.;This searing coming-of-age memoir is set in "Southie" where gangster Whitey Bulger runs the drug business, and class and racial violence erupt in response to forced busing in the 1970s. MacDonald [the author] loses four siblings to drugs, poverty, and violence, and eventually attempts to transcend his grief as he becomes an activist in the Southie he can't help but love.-http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir.

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a Breakaway Bestseller Since Its First Printing, All Souls Takes Us Deep Into Michael Patrick Macdonald’s Southie, The Proudly Insular Neighborhood With The Highest Concentration Of White Poverty In America. Rocked By Whitey Bulger’s Crime Schemes And Busing Riots, Macdonald’s Southie Is Populated By Sharply Hewn Characters Like His Ma, A Miniskirted, Accordion-playing Single Mother Who Endures The Deaths Of Four Of Her Eleven Children. Nearly Suffocated By His Grief And His Community’s Code Of Silence, Macdonald Tells His Family Story Here With Gritty But Moving Honesty.

“all Souls Is A Memoir Filled With Desperation And Despair, But There Is Also Hope In It . . . [macdonald's] Discovery Of His Vocation In Neighborhood Activism Is A Refreshing Change From Most Memoirs, Which So Often . . . Are Largely Concerned With Describing An Ascent To Celebrityhood.”—julian Moynahan, New York Review Of Books

“michael Patrick Macdonald Takes Us On A Heartbreaking Tour Of His South Boston Family.”—frank Mccourt, Irish America Magazine

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in This Plainly Written, Powerful Memoir, Macdonald, Now 32, Details Not Only His Own Story Of Growing Up In Southie, Boston's Irish Catholic Enclave, But Examines The Myriad Ways In Which The Media And Law Enforcement Agencies Exploit Marginalized Working-class Communities. Macdonald Was One Of Nine Children Born (of Several Fathers) To His Mother, Helen Macdonald, A Colorful Woman Who Played The Accordion In Local Irish Pubs To Supplement Her Welfare Checks. Having Grown Up In The Old Colony Housing Project, He Describes His Neighbors' Indigence And Pride Of Place, As Well As Their Blatant Racism (in 1975 The Anti-busing Riots In Southie Made National Headlines) And Their Deep Denial Of The Organized Crime And Entrenched Drug Culture That Was Destroying The Youth And Social Fabric. Macdonald's Account Is Filled With Vivid Episodes: Of His Brother Davey's Horrific Incarceration In Mass Mental And Ultimate Suicide; Of The Time Helen Took Her Older Kids To The Hospital, Where Her Current Lover Was A Patient, To Beat Him Up After He Denied He Was The Father Of The Child She Was Carrying; Of The Murder Of His Brother Frankie By His Compatriots After The Police Shot Him In An Armored-car Robbery. But Perhaps Most Shocking Is The Accusation That The Fbi Was Paying Southie's Leading Gangster, Whitey Bulger, As An Informant Although They Knew He Was The Neighborhood Kingpin. Macdonald, Who Now Works On Multiracial Social Projects In Boston, Does Not Excuse Southie's Racism, But He Paints A Frightening Portrait Of A Community Under Intense Economic And Social Stress, Issuing A Forceful Plea For Understanding And Justice. Agent, Palmer And Dodge. (sept.) Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.

"The anti-busing riots of 1974 forever changed Southie, Boston's working class Irish community, branding it as a violent, racist enclave. Michael Patrick MacDonald grew up in Southie's Old Colony housing project. He describes the way this world within a world felt to the troubled yet keenly gifted observer he was even as a child: "[as if] we were protected, as if the whole neighborhood was watching our backs for threats, watching for all the enemies we could never really define.""--Jacket "But the threats - poverty, drugs, a shadowy gangster world - were real. MacDonald lost four of his siblings to violence and poverty. All Souls is heart-breaking testimony to lives lost too early, and the story of how a place so filled with pain could still be "the best place in the world.""--Jacket "I remember hating having to cross over the Broadway Bridge again, having to leave the peninsula neighborhood and go back to my apartment in downtown Boston."