I just finished reading the book 'Tis, the book following Angela's Ashes by Pulitizer prize-winning author Frank Mc Court. Another wonderful, biographical tale of how the teenage author leaves Ireland at the ripe age of 19, from a poverty-stricken life to finding hope for himself in the United States in 1949.
During his boat ride over, he meets a priest who tries to impart information on how to become rich by meeting the right people with connections, in his mind "rich Protestants". His first living quarters is a hotel room he shares with the priest, who does something (while being drunk) which is very unbecoming a man in his religious position, etc. This later causes the priest to seek out a cheap apartment for Frank, as well as his first job, albeit a menial and unlikable one. So right away Frank is being rescued by someone, for he has very little money on coming to this country.
Frank's life begins here with several different jobs and living arrangements, but at some point he enters the army, at one point in Germany and staring a Holocaust oven in the face (that war is over), and has to touch it because he feels he will want to say this one day. He meets a variety of colorful people with strange and wonderful personalities, including a landlady who is always drunk and lives in the apartment building with her son Michael "what's left of him". Several friends tell him that he should want to get a college education, which he does, without even graduating from high school, on a trial basis. He has different adventures with women at various times, and at college meets a girl with the nickname Mike, who he falls head over heels for and eventually marries. His teaching experiences, as well as many other, are just hilarious, and teaches in different high schools, including a vocational school, an elite prep school during the turbulent 1960's and all of the assassinations taking place. His mother comes to New York, and grows older there, one other brother does, as well, and becomes famous. Throughout the beginning of the book he struggles with money, but later comes more into his own. Anyway, there is a third book, which I really want to get my hands on, Teacherman, and finish off the series. This book is well worth reading, and I, as with Angela's Ashes, laughed out loud many times, and highly recommend to anyone.
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