Gypsy Boy Author:Mikey Walsh In Mikey Walsh’s unforgettable memoir Gypsy Boy, the author reflects on his highly eccentric upbringing: both his father and grandfather were champion bareknuckle boxers in England’s Gypsy community, but Mikey never had any interest in fighting. Despite being proud of his heritage and loving his mother and sister, he realized he had a secret tha... more »t would never be accepted by his family: he was gay.
Mikey never went to school, seldom mixed with non-Gypsies and the caravan became his world. In glowing prose bursting with ’80s pop culture references, this book reveals what life is really like among the Romany Gypsies. Their culture is a world apart from our own; a world that is more criminal and more puritanical in equal measure.« less