A deeply moving memoir of healing and ancestral reconnection, weaving an intimate personal story with the epic history of Ireland.
In 2013, exactly a century after her grandparents emigrated from Ireland to America, Carolyn Brigit Flynn returned to her ancestral homeland in the wake of a family tragedy. Raised in a boisterous Irish Catholic family in 1970s Washington, DC, Flynn grew up amid traditional music, stories, and blarney—but also with silence about the poverty and hardship her grandparents left behind. Her charismatic father bore his own wounds and shunned her when she fell in love with another girl in high school. From $0.99 – SHOP NOW /