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Leaving Ireland
Ann Moore

A young mother leaves her homeland—and begins life anew...

Hoping for a better future, Gracelin O’Malley sets sail from her beloved Ireland to a world unlike anything she’s ever known. After surviving the treacherous passage, she delights in finding her brother Sean, already much changed by Manhattan’s strange ways. Grace takes a job in a saloon, coping with the starkness of immigrant life—and the horrors of the Irish tenement district.

Haunted by the choice she made to leave her infant son behind in County Cork, Grace finds solace in the friendship of a runaway slave, a woman who has also made unspeakable decisions. As Grace struggles to adapt to her new home, she reunites with a man she once misjudged. With his help, she finds the courage to take a stand against the corruption and injustice around her—but her bravery threatens the very people she has sworn to protect…

Accent, February 2005
ISBN #0451214269
432 pages Paperback
$7.99