Easter Rising: A Memoir of Roots and Rebellion

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 thrilli...