The House of MemoryBy: John Freely In this funny and tender memoir, John Freely reflects on a remarkable life. Splitting his early childhood between the U. S. and Ireland inspired in Freely a lifelong desire to see the world and its inhabitants. At age six he settled in Brooklyn, where he spent a sometimes tumultuous boyhood amidst a large extended family: moving from house to house, the familys belongings packed in an uncles hearse. Growing up poor, in his teens,