Easter Rising

An “alternately funny and heartbreaking” memoir of leaving—and finding—home, by the author of All Souls: A Family Story from Southie ( Newsweek ).   In All Souls , Michael Patrick MacDonald told the story of the loss of four of his siblings to the violence, poverty, and gangsterism of Irish South Boston. In Easter Rising , he tells the story of how he got out.   Desperate to avoid the “normal” life of Southie, Michael first reinvents himself in the burgeoning punk rock movement and the