Tis Review

Tis by Frank McCourt

This book is as amazing as the first book Angela's Ashes. Frank McCourt is a wonderful storyteller! If you've read Angela's Ashes you have got to check out Tis.

Tis tells of Frank's life once he gets to New York right after WWII, 1949, when he is 19 years old. Frank is amazed at what America has to offer, and one of his lines in the book is 'Isn't this a great country altogether?" And he answers "Tis."

He is taken under the wing of a priest, who helps him find a place and gets him settled, then the priest hits on him! Unfortunately his first few years in America are not that great. Gross boarding houses, manual labor jobs, and a lot of heavy drinking with two of his brothers that have also made it to the states, Malachy, and Michael. He eventually gets admitted to NYU. He gets a teaching degree, and starts teaching in Staten Island. You read about his marriage to Alberta and his Mother's return to America to be near her sons. This whole book is peppered with stories of all the characters that he meets a long the way, and all the funny little things that happen to him and he makes his way through the mazes of New York.

Frank McCourt is a true fabler. I give this book two thumbs up, a must read!