The Outside Boy - Jeanine Cummins
Category: General Fiction
Tags: General Fiction, Adults
Publisher: Macmillan Audio Date: June 2020 Duration: 12 hours 20 minutes, Summary: The Outside Boy is a poignant, coming of age novel about an Irish gypsy boys childhood in the 1950s from Jeanine Cummins, the national bestselling author of A Rip in Heaven and American Dirt., 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. Christy carries with him a burden of guilt as well, haunted by the story of his mothers death in childbirth., The wandering life is the only one Christy has ever known, but when his grandfather dies, everything changes. His father decides to settle briefly, in a town, where Christy and his cousin can receive proper schooling and prepare for their first communions. But still, always, they are treated as outsiders., As Christy struggles to find his way amid the more conventional lives of his new classmates, he starts to question wh
