In the Country of the Young
 

In the Country of the Young

by Lisa Carey

On a stormy November night in 1848, a ship carrying more than a hundred Irish emigrants ran aground twenty miles off the coast of Maine. Many were saved, but some were not -- including a young girl who died crying out the name of her brother.
In the present day, the artist Oisin MacDara lives in self-imposed exile on Tiranogue -- the small island where the shipwrecked Irish settled. The... (read more)

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Lyrical, mystical, and hauntingly beautiful. The imagery from this book continues to float in my mind.

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