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The Walking People (Paperback)

By: Mary Beth Keane (Author)

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"THE WALKING PEOPLE is thoughtful and appealing....[I]t's a solid, intelligent piece of work."

"[A] richly moving first novel....Sometimes heart-wrenching, sometimes joyous and tender--one of those stories that lingers in the reader's memory as a lived experience." (starred review)

"In her debut, Keane marries a deliciously old-fashioned style of storytelling with a fresh take on the immigrant experience....A warm, involving family drama that makes a triumph of Greta's transformation from misfit to a capable wife and mother."

Publisher's note

Greta Cahill never believed she would leave her village in the west of Ireland until she found herself on a ship bound for New York, along with her sister Johanna and a boy named Michael Ward. Labeled a "softheaded goose" by her family, Greta discovers that in America she can fall in love, raise her own family, and earn a living.
Though she longs to return and show her family what she has made of herself, her decision to spare her children knowledge of a secret in her past forces her to keep her life in New York separate from the life she once loved in Ireland, and tears her from the people she holds closest. Even fifty years later, when the Ireland of her memory bears little resemblance to that of the present day, she fears that it is still possible to lose all when she discovers that her children--with the best of intentions--have conspired to unite the worlds she's so carefully kept separate for decades.
A beautifully old-fashioned novel, "The Walking People" is a debut of remarkable range and power.

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Mary Beth Keane's THE WALKING PEOPLE is a lush and sweeping tale of Ireland's itinerant poor--specifically a resourceful country girl and a tinker's son with big dreams--as they make their inevitable way to the land of promise, America.

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