![]() ![]() Why would he do this? Maybe the reason - if someone like Frankie needs a reason to smother his child - can be found in the event of Dol's birth. "He would have smothered you," Mary tells Dol. This is the second tragedy of Dol's one month of life: The first is being born to a father who cannot bear the sight of her. The story is narrated by the youngest child, aptly named Dolores, or "Dol," who early in the book loses the fingers of her left hand in a house fire. Their mother, Mary, like McCourt's mother, lives in a "permanent state of grief." Too ineffectual to protect her children from their father's tyranny, Mary retreats into depression. For them life is a series of violent episodes visited upon them by their charming sociopathic father, Frankie. ![]() Growing up in the 1960s in the clannish Maltese immigrant society of Cardiff, Wales, the six Gauci sisters suffer no ordinary miserable childhood. ![]()
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