All Souls: A Family Story from Southie
By Michael Patrick MacDonald
A breakaway novel back its aboriginal printing, All Souls takes us abysmal into Michael Patrick MacDonald’s Southie, the proudly alone adjacency with the accomplished absorption of white abjection in America. Rocked by Whitey Bulger’s abomination schemes and busing riots, MacDonald’s Southie is busy by acutely hewn characters like his Ma, a miniskirted, accordion-playing individual mother who endures the deaths of four of her eleven children. Nearly suffocated by his affliction and his community’s cipher of silence, MacDonald tells his ancestors adventure actuality with abrasive but affective honesty.
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