Angelaâs Ashesâ by Frank McCourt is the March selection for IrishCentralâs Book Club.
Each month, we will pick a new Irish book or a great book by an Irish author and celebrate the amazing ability of the Irish to tell a good story for IrishCentral s Book Club.
Throughout March, weâll be reading the Pulitzer Prize-winning and #1 New York Times bestseller âAngelaâs Ashes, published in September 1996, from Irish American author Frank McCourt.
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Synopsis of âAngelaâs Ashesâ by Frank McCourt When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.