Francie Brady - a small town boy with a bit of a wild imagination, a passion for comic books and John Wayne movies. Via a first person account (with little punctuation), Patrick gives us two stories, one imagined on top of another. This wonderful novel is in fact a stream of consciousness, flowing to-and-fro over the line of sanity. It is a world reflected through a best friend, an alcoholic father, a depressed mother and mean old neighbor Mrs. Nugent. There are priests, three-headed ladies in the market, fish, and so much more.
