So I've reached the chapter in which yet another tragedy befalls our main guy, Michael Patrick, and his family. Thus far we've heard of the death of his mother's baby, Patrick Michael, who Michael Patrick was named after. We've also read about Michael's older, mentally unstable brother, Davey committing suicide. And just about every other page of the book held other terrible things. In the chapter I just read, entitled 'Holy Water', it appears as if Michael's sister, Kathy, is following in Davey's footsteps. She appears to have "thrown herself" off of a building, but the family has doubts and believes she was really pushed off of the building during a fight over drugs. She survives the fall but is worse for wear.
This chapter was particular memorable for me because Michael talks about all of the people, mostly Kathy's young friends, who visit her in the hospital. However not only does Michael simply say they visited her, he goes on to describe how in the near future each of them met their fate in some sad, tragic way. Timmy Baldwin, who Kathy dated, was shot twice in front of a bar. Julie Meaney, a friend of Kathy's, walked into the waters at a beach and drown. Tommy Dooley was murdered by his own girlfriend's family. This chapter just reinforced the depressing and desolate feelings the beginning of the book incited. It's a reminder (as if you could forget while reading) how dangerous and corrupt certain areas of Boston were. It's crazy reading how all these people visited Kathy, unaware that they'd be following in her footsteps (so to speak) and end up in the hospital as well, or even worse, the morgue.
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