Frank McCourt
This non-fiction memoir, while depressing at times, was completely engaging and enjoyable. Frank McCourt tells the story of his childhood in Limerick, Ireland, where he grows up in complete poverty. His father, Malachy, can’t find work and and drinks away any money he receives from the dole. His mother, Angela, has to beg for food, and the family survives on little besides bread and tea. While life is miserable and unbearable, Frank manages to survive Typhoid and “the worst case of Conjunctivitis” his doctor’s ever seen. In this memoir, Frank McCourt shows that, no matter how bad life is, it can always be worse, and he proves just how strong the human spirit can be.