A review by casspro
Gypsy Boy by Mikey Walsh

2.0

This is not something for the faint of heart. I don't quite know what I was anticipating, but this book called to me from the library shelves. I agree with some of the other reviewers that it seems a stretch that Walsh remembers so many vivid details and conversations from when he was four, five, six years old. A lot of this must have been hand-me-down stories, exaggerations, or retellings of already existing memories. The big take-away from this book is violence. Physical, sexual, mental, emotional. Whether it's true or not, the details are gut wrenching and skin crawling. I guess I wanted something a little more romanticized; I wasn't prepared for the reality that Walsh portrays of the Gypsy culture.