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All Souls

a Family Story From Southie
Dec 05, 2013elliottt rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
What I appreciate about All Souls is that it doesn't aspire to be an authoritative, exhaustive study of Southie, but rather a very personal and focused description of how it FELT to grow up in that environment. The book isn't loaded down with statistics or many viewpoints-- just MacDonald's recollection of the things his family experienced. His talent as a writer becomes most apparent in the last 50 pages with a story that is so profoundly upsetting that I couldn't put the book down or stop crying. Definitely worth a read.