If you are afraid of Angela's ashes

If you wimped out reading 'Angela's Ashes' by Frank McCourt, here's another chance at reading on Irish childhood. With 'I'll give you something to cry about' chapter, I read in another book 'Stuck in the Middle with you' by Jennifer Finney Boylan where the author goes to Ireland with her family and in one of the irate moments says the same 'I'll give you something to cry about'. so it is true Irish childhood.
In some chapters, the author tries to show us incidents where his childhood innocence was peeled by doing away with a litter of dogs. I watched a similar thing where a litter of cats were left in a sack very far away from house but at a much younger age than the author. Then there's the mom not letting you go to excursions even after having paid the trip expenses. I could relate well with some of the experiences.
The TV Reporters snippets in most of the chapters recreate the family dinner table setting and unleash the 'Troubles' second-hand in an easy medium to the readers.
Author ate custard cream biscuits in the break time of turning turf.
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