"To say McSherry has lived a 'hard knock' life is an
understatement, but the Lehman High School teacher and Brio Award
winner has crafted a Bronx version of "Angela's Ashes" that
resonates with hope, wit, and perseverance." -Derek Woods, host of
the television program, "Bronx Magazine" Told through a series of
striking vignettes, "A Clean Street's A Happy Street: A Bronx
Memoir" is a masterful coming-of-age tale brimming with heartache,
forgiveness, and redemption. Growing up in a tough Bronx
neighborhood during the 1960s and 1970s, James McSherry dreams of
becoming a writer. Faced with his mother's mental illness, his
father's brutal murder, and poverty's chokehold, McSherry refuses
to lose sight of his future. He struggles to survive in a
fragmented world, clinging to his education and his poetry when his
mother's fragile grip on reality shatters. The harsh consequences
of his mother's debilitating mental health binds McSherry and his
four siblings in a painful knot, but the love and commitment they
have for each other sustains them through a turbulent adolescence.
Powerful and moving, "A Clean Street's A Happy Street" intimately
reveals one man's determination to break free from a troubling
childhood and boldly create a luminous new future.
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