![]() The outrage has focused on Cummins, who is of mixed Irish and Puerto Rican heritage, writing about the Mexican and migrant experiences. ![]() But then the discovery of an old newspaper photograph, and a long-buried secret from his mother’s mysterious past, changes his life forever. 'American Dirt,' the new novel by Jeanine Cummins, traces the journey a mother and son make to the US, after a cartel kills their family in a massacre at a quinceañera. ![]() But still, always, they are treated as outsiders.Īs Christy struggles to find his way amid the more conventional lives of his new classmates, he starts to question who he is and where he belongs. The Outside Boy is a poignant coming-of-age novel about an Irish gypsy boy’s childhood in the 1950s from Jeanine Cummins, the national best-selling author of A Rip in Heaven and American Dirt. His father decides to settle briefly, in a town, where Christy and his cousin can receive proper schooling and prepare for their first communions. The wandering life is the only one Christy has ever known, but when his grandfather dies, everything changes. Christy carries with him a burden of guilt as well, haunted by the story of his mother’s death in childbirth. 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. ![]() 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. ![]()
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