Angela’s Ashes: a memoir C.B. Bernard a song that began as

a song that began as an aria

Wickett’s Remedy announces her arrival as a major novelist

and the wonderful people who make them possible

are everywhere

is accused of murdering her English professor

Angela’s Ashes: a memoir C.B. Bernard a song that began asWhen I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood. So begins the luminous memoir of Frank McCourt, born in Depression era Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants and raised in the slums of Limerick, Ireland.