{"product_id":"book-duib","title":"The Outside Boy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Outside Boy\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eA Rip in Heaven\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAmerican Dirt\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eIreland, 1959\u003c\/i\u003e: 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs 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....\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt and Company \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Audio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49370402259248,"sku":"BDduib","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/107727-duib-Square.jpg?v=1734650164","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-duib","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}