The Outside Boy, 9781472272836
Paperback
Lost boy finds his place while uncovering family secrets.

The Outside Boy

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  • Paperback

    384 pages

  • Release Date

    13 July 2020

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Summary

The Wanderer’s Secret: A Journey of Belonging

‘A full-throated song of praise. I loved it’ Sherman Alexie

Ireland, 1959. Young Christopher Hurley is a tinker, a Pavee gypsy, who roams with his father and extended family from town to town, carrying all their worldly possessions in their wagons. Christy carries with him a burden of guilt as well: his mother’s death in childbirth.

The wandering life is the only one Christy has ever known, but when his g…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781472272836
ISBN-10:1472272838
Author:Jeanine Cummins
Publisher:Headline Publishing Group
Imprint:Tinder Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:384
Release Date:13 July 2020
Weight:276g
Dimensions:196mm x 130mm x 28mm
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Critics Review

A deeply moving and elegiac look at a vanishing culture… gorgeously written - Booklist

Some of the greatness of Angela’s Ashes dampens these pages, maybe as much as is possible for an author for whom this is fiction, not memoir. Beautifully crafted scenes and characters keep the pages turning - Historical Novel Society

A poignant and magical tale

About The Author

Jeanine Cummins

Jeanine Cummins is the author of the novels American Dirt, The Outside Boy, and The Crooked Branch, and a true crime work, A Rip in Heaven. She lives in New York with her husband and two children.

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