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Gypsy Boy

My Life in the Secret World of the Romany Gypsies
Mar 06, 2018vickmeister rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
A brutal, unsentimental look into one young man's harrowing experience growing up in a Romany gypsy enclave in Britain during the 1980s: a testosterone-fueled world where violence, deceitfulness, and blindly-held tradition are all just part of daily life. Born to a family legendary for producing fierce champion fighters, sweet, sensitive Mikey becomes the bane of his furious father's existence, regularly beaten and forced to fight to try and turn him into the clan's vicious version of what a real man should be. This is a tough read, filled with appallingly barbarous situations, fascinating and horrible characters, and engrossing detailed description of what life was like for the Romany of that period.