The literary focus of "Angela's Ashes"

This story is a memoir. A memoir is a form of nonfiction in which a person recalls signifigant events in his or her life. It focuses on the details more than the facts."Angela's Ashes" is a memoir because it describes an event from the main character's past. In this story, Frank McCourt describes the time when he was put in Fever Hospital when he was diagnosed with typhiod/diptheria.