
A multigenerational tale about the passionate loves and losses of women in a family of firefighters traces their experiences spanning from famine-era Ireland to Brooklyn a decade after the September 11 attacks.
Publisher:
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016.
Copyright Date:
©2016
ISBN:
9780544464056
0544464052
0544464052
Branch Call Number:
FIC DONOHOE, KATHLEEN
Characteristics:
403 pages : genealogical table ; 24 cm



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Add a CommentThis book started so well but somewhere it got lost. My understanding was that it was about the impact on the wives & families when they lose a fireman. I maybe misunderstood the review I saw somewhere. Anyway I followed through with the women from the family tree then Mattie turned up, not part of it. I didn't see the women as strong women either they mostly appeared to be manipulating & dishonest to me. A strong start that moved into a dwindle.
Interesting story of an Irish family in New York who were firefighters or family of the firefighters. However there is a twist as the story as it is told from the viewpoint of the women in these lives, only one of which is a firefighter herself. It I told by the different women and moves around in time to link their history together. From the eighteen hundreds through 9/11 until almost 20 years after. These are strong women who made the most of their lives and those of their children,