The Outside Boy

Written by:
Jeanine Cummins
Narrated by:
Alan Devally

Unabridged Audiobook

Ratings
Book
10
Narrator
6
Release Date
June 2020
Duration
12 hours 20 minutes
Summary
The Outside Boy is a poignant, coming of age novel about an Irish gypsy boy’s childhood in the 1950’s from Jeanine Cummins, the national bestselling author of A Rip in Heaven and American Dirt.

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, haunted by the story of his mother’s death in childbirth.

The wandering life is the only one Christy has ever known, but when his grandfather dies, everything changes. His father decides to settle briefly, in a town, where Christy and his cousin can receive proper schooling and prepare for their first communions. But still, always, they are treated as outsiders.

As Christy struggles to find his way amid the more conventional lives of his new classmates, he starts to question who he is and where he belongs. But then the discovery of an old newspaper photograph, and a long-buried secret from his mother’s mysterious past, changes his life forever....

A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt and Company
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Diana K.

I will forever hold this book dear. I loved every minute of it and the narration was divine.

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Pamela F.

Oh, I simply LOVED this book! The author writes with such detail, I felt like I was living the story along with the narrator. I laughed. I cried. I didn’t want it to end.

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Joan F.

As the child of 2 Irish Immigrants this books holds a special place in my heart. I grew up driving through towns In Ireland seeing the \"travelers\" and not understanding their way of life. This book has provided me with a small snap shot of that way of life and why we should be open minded to the ways others choose to live. This story was an absolute delight to listen to!!

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