Date Published: December 10, 2024 (Paperback) / March 11, 2025 (Audiobook)
Publisher: She Writes Press/Tantor Media
Narrator: Aoife McMahon
Run Time: 9 hours and 39 minutes
comes a family saga about the Irish immigrant experience spanning New York,
Chicago, and Colorado so compelling that, USA Today best-selling author Kelli
Estes says, “I read this story in one sitting.”
Thirteen-year-old Mary Agnes Coyne, forced from her home in rural Ireland in
1886 after being accused of incest, endures a treacherous voyage across the
Atlantic alone to an unknown life in America. From the tenements of New York
to the rough alleys of Chicago, Mary Agnes suffers the bitter taste of
prejudice for the crime of being poor and Irish.
After moving west to Colorado, Mary Agnes again faces hardships and grapples
with heritage, religion, and matters of the heart. Will she ever find a home
to call her own? Where?
A native New Yorker, Ashley E. Sweeney is the multi-award-winning author of
four novels, The Irish Girl, Hardland, Answer Creek: A Novel of The Donner
Party, and Eliza Waite. She graduated from Wheaton College in Norton, Mass.
with a degree in American Literature and American History and spent her career
as a journalist and educator before turning to writing full-time. When she is
not chained to her writing desk, Sweeney is an avid gardener, art quilter, and
mosaic artist. She lives in the Pacific Northwest and Tucson.
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