A poignant, coming of age novel about an Irish gypsy boys childhood in the 1950s from the. But they are still treated as outsiders.Īs Christy's exposure to a different life causes him to question who he is and where he belongs, the answer may lie with an old newspaper photograph and a long-buried family secret that could change his life forever. Buy a cheap copy of The Outside Boy book by Jeanine Cummins. His father decides to settle down temporarily in a town where Christy and his cousin can attend mass and receive proper schooling. The peripatetic life is the only one Christy has ever known, but when his grandfather dies, everything changes. : The Outside Boy (Paperback): Language: English. Jeanine Cummins is the author of the 1 New York Times bestselling novel, AMERICAN DIRT, which was an Oprah Book Club and a Barnes & Noble Book Club selection, has been translated into 34 languages, and has sold more than 2 million copies worldwide.

Christy carries with him a burden of guilt as well, haunted by the story of his mother's death in childbirth. Ireland, 1959: Young Christy Hurley is a Pavee gypsy, traveling with his father and extended family from town to town, carrying all their worldly possessions in their wagons.

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Our life in the city had not prepared us for anything. The Outside Boy - Jeanine Cummins A poignant, coming of age novel about an Irish gypsy boy’s childhood in the 1950’s from the national bestselling author of A Rip in Heaven and American Dirt. The hard truth that we were about to learn was that, in fact, we weren’t tough kids at all. When my parents packed my brother, sister and me into the family van and drove us to Missouri for Spring Break, we brought our entirely imagined city hardness with us.

The Outside Boy by Jeanine Cummins