Gypsy boy on the run : my escape from a life among the Romany gypsies / Mikey Walsh.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2013, c2011.Edition: 1st U.S. edDescription: 306 p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9781250021878
  • 1250021871
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.891/497041092 B 23
LOC classification:
  • DX127.W35 A3 2013
Online resources: Summary: Mikey was born into a Romany Gypsy family. They lived in a closeted community, and little is known of their way of life. After centuries of persecution, Gypsies are wary of outsiders, and if you choose to leave, you can never come back. This is something Mikey knows all too well. Growing up, he didn't go to school and seldom mixed with non-Gypsies; the caravan became his world. Eventually Mikey was forced to make an agonizing decision--to stay and keep secrets, or escape to find somewhere to belong.
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Mikey was born into a Romany Gypsy family. They lived in a closeted community, and little is known of their way of life. After centuries of persecution, Gypsies are wary of outsiders, and if you choose to leave, you can never come back. This is something Mikey knows all too well. Growing up, he didn't go to school and seldom mixed with non-Gypsies; the caravan became his world. Eventually Mikey was forced to make an agonizing decision--to stay and keep secrets, or escape to find somewhere to belong.

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