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The Houseguestby Agnes Rossi
His one tenuous connection is to a man named Fitzgibbon, owner of a silk-dyeing mill in Paterson, New Jersey. Fitz greets his fellow Irishman with hospitality, inviting Edward into his home and, ultimately, setting up a chain of events that will cause Fitz to lose everything and Edward to gain all he dared not hope for. Moving from a small town in the north of Ireland to Depression-era Paterson to the New Jersey Shore, The Houseguest is an eloquent and morally complex novel that perfectly captures the rhythms of grief, hope, and humor that are indelible parts of the Irish-American experience.
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year is 1934 and Edward Devlin, recently widowed and a disillusioned
veteran of Ireland's struggle for
independence, leaves his small daughter, Maura, behind in Ireland and
heads for America with not much more than his
memories and a lingering desire for his beautiful dead wife.
