John Boyle Boeken

From the author of Galloway Street, a humorous yet moving account of an adolescent friendship with another boy from an Irish-immigrant family in Scotland, that left its mark on him for the rest of his life.

John Boyle was born and raised in Scotland, but he could never feel Scottish. His parents were poor immigrants from the west of Ireland, who came to Scotland to find work and eventually settled in Paisley. This memoir captures the poverty and rough humor of the Boyle family's life.