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Angela's Ashes : A Memoir by Frank McCourt
"My father and mother should have stayed in New York where they met and married and where I was born. "
Honestly, I don't know that things would have been any better in America. I think Frank's father would have drank no matter where they were, and although their family wasn't enormously helpful, they were a little bit, and that help wouldn't have been there for them in New York.
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I read this book many moons ago, and your post has encouraged me to read it again :)
I LOVE THIS BOOK!!! It's one of my very very favorites EVER!
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I agree that wherever they lived the family would have struggled.
It's been so long since I read this that I am tempted to pick it up again too.
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