(Smith returns with a new memoir: a boisterous, poignant, often hilarious look at growing up irish, Catholic, and poor on the sidewalks of New York. Here, he is haunted by the specter of his mysteriously absent father. But it is Smiths mother, hardworking, no-nonsense Mary, who leads him by the hand to his Irish heritage and pulls him by the ear into adulthood.

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