Angela's Ashes Study Guide

Author, Frank McCourt begins the first chapter of his Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir with an observation that his parents should have remained in New York, where they met, married and became parents. He recounts his earliest childhood memories and his family's return to Ireland when he was four years old. "Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood," says McCourt. (read more)