Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha

Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha is a ten-year-old boy's unfiltered account of a year in his life in North Dublin, set in the late 1960s. Told in a thick Dublin vernacular, the novel follows Paddy through school, his neighborhood, and his family as he navigates a world of petty violence, schoolyard politics, and a father who is slowly drifting away. Roddy Doyle's Booker Prize-winning novel is a darkly comic, gritty coming-of-age story told entirely through a child's voice.