Man of the House: A Memoir

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Between the years of 1944 and 1963, Dr. Colm McAindriu was just a kid, a black kid living in the Jim Crow Mississippi Delta. His story brings to light what living day and night under the threat of death looks like for a black kid in this era. Should he look at the white girl, or dream of her and tell someone and be caught doing so? His mother forces him to help her raise her remaining 12 children and demands that he kill his prized pig to feed her family. McAindriu’s childhood is rife with small moments of joy and learning, coupled with working in cottonfields, pain both physical and emotional, and being the Man of the House.