Paddy Clarke, Hahaha by Roddy Doyle

Set in 1960s north Dublin, a lively ten-year-old roams his neighborhood with a gang of friends, reveling in pranks, discoveries, and schoolyard rivalries. Through his sharp, often funny observations, the small dramas of childhood gradually give way to the unsettling reality of his parents’ failing marriage, and as home life fractures he is pushed toward a premature, sobering awareness of the adult world.