"A biography with narrative muscle and thrilling historical relevance."
O'Faolain, mistress of the memoir (Almost There, 2003, etc.), meets her match in fellow Irishwoman Chicago May, feisty turn-of-the-century feminist and queen of crooks.
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"O'Faolain may be "almost there"—free of turbulence and waste, out of the wild hills and onto calm water—but she may also be constitutionally incapable of such a condition: there's too much grit in her keen eye to let it rest easy upon the world."
With the same emotional spadework as in her bestselling Are You Somebody? (1998), O'Faolain turns over the past half decade to try understanding how and why they happened.
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"An honest and poignant account of a woman attempting to build a future on the ruins of the past."
With her first fiction, memoirist O'Faolain (Are You Somebody?, 1998) offers an expansive work touching on the nature of passion, loss, and hope.
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"A testament to a full and passionately lived life—all the more affecting because of that life's vividly described imperfection and pain. (Author tour)"
An Irish woman reflects, with stunning honesty, on her country and her past.
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