The Outside Boy
Written by Jeanine Cummins
Narrated by Alan Devally
5/5
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About this audiobook
The Outside Boy is a poignant, coming of age novel about an Irish gypsy boy’s childhood in the 1950’s from Jeanine Cummins, the national bestselling author of A Rip in Heaven and American Dirt.
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. Christy carries with him a burden of guilt as well, haunted by the story of his mother’s death in childbirth.
The wandering life is the only one Christy has ever known, but when his grandfather dies, everything changes. His father decides to settle briefly, in a town, where Christy and his cousin can receive proper schooling and prepare for their first communions. But still, always, they are treated as outsiders.
As 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. But then the discovery of an old newspaper photograph, and a long-buried secret from his mother’s mysterious past, changes his life forever....
A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt and Company
Jeanine Cummins
Jeanine Cummins is the New York Times bestselling author of American Dirt, as well as the novels The Outside Boy and The Crooked Branch and the bestselling memoir A Rip in Heaven. She lives in New York with her husband and two children.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I loved this book. The narrator with his thick Irish brogue brought the story to life. Rich narrative and great sense of humor. I hope I can find more like it.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I was sad when the story ended. I love it when I feel that way about a book.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Treated the Irish travelers with dignity instead of stereotypes. Well written with a few surprises