Seeing-Eye Boy , the first novel by poet and musician Terence Winch .
winner of the American Book Award and Columbia Book Award, brings to life the Irish immigrant world of 20th-century urban America.
The vivid and engrossing story of Matt Coffey, 12 years old going on 13, offers an inside look at a lost universe where two cultures, Irish and American, blended together in the new world.
In the story it's the fall of 1957, and Matt's world is in turmoil.