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Michael Patrick MacDonald

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Biographies & Memoirs, History, Nonfiction

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Michael Patrick MacDonald was born in Boston in 1966 and grew up in South Boston’s Old Colony housing project. He helped launch many of Boston’s anti violence initiatives, including gun-buyback programs and the South Boston Vigil Group which served to give voice to the survivors of violence and the drug trade in that neighborhood. He continues to work nationally with survivor families and young people in the anti-violence movement.

His first book, All Souls won the American Book Award. He is also the recipient of a New England Literary Lights Award, and the Myers Center Outstanding Book Award administered by the Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights in North America. His second book, the highly acclaimed memoir Easter Risin ...more

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Average rating: 4.07 · 14,699 ratings · 1,084 reviews · 7 distinct works • Similar authors

	All Souls: A Family Story from Southie 4.09 avg rating — 13,695 ratings — published 1999 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Easter Rising: An Irish American Coming Up from Under 3.78 avg rating — 949 ratings — published 2006 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tell Me True: Memoir, History, and Writing a Life by Patricia Hampl (Editor), Elaine Tyler May (Editor), Matt Becker (Contributor) 3.58 avg rating — 62 ratings — published 2008 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Coming of Age in a Hardscrabble World: A Memoir Anthology by Nancy C Atwood (Editor), Maya Angelou (Contributor), Russell Baker (Contributor) 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Easter Rising: A Memoir Of Roots And Rebellion 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“I remember hating having to cross over the Broadway Bridge again, having to leave the peninsula neighborhood and go back to my apartment in downtown Boston.”
― Michael Patrick MacDonald, All Souls: A Family Story from Southie

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“It’s funny, I thought, how the people who seem the meanest, the people we want nothing to do with, might be in the most pain.”
― Michael Patrick MacDonald, All Souls: A Family Story from Southie

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“I stared at them for a good long time, wondering if they didn’t know how to use their wings, of if they just didn’t know they had them, until it was too late to save themselves.”
― Michael Patrick MacDonald

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