'Tis. A Memoir

The sequel to Angela's Ashes

 'That's your dream out now. That's what my mother would say when we were children in ireland and a dream we had came true. The one I had over and over was where I sailed into new York Harbor awed by the skycrapers before me. I'd tell my brothers and they'd envy me for having spent a night in America till they began to claim they'd had that dream, too... I appealed to my mother. I told her it wasn't fair the way the whole family was invading my dreams and she said, Arrah, for the love o' God, drink your tea and go to school and stop tormenting us with your dreams.'