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The mermaids singing
- Title
- The mermaids singing / Lisa Carey.
- Author
- Carey, Lisa.
- Publication
- New York : Avon Books, [1998], ©1998.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PS3553.A66876 M47 1998 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 257 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- Years ago, Cliona - strong, proud and practical - sailed for Boston, determined to one day come home. But when the time came to return to Inis Muruch, her daughter Grace - fierce, beautiful, and brazenly sexual - resented her mother's isolated, unfamiliar world. Though entranced by the sea and its healing powers, Grace became desperate to escape the confines of the island, one day stealing away with her small daughter Grainne.
- Now Grainne - motherless at fifteen after Grace's death - is about to be taken back across the ocean by Cliona, repeating the journey her mother was forced to make years before. She goes to meet a father she has never known, her heart pulled between a life where she no longer belongs and a family she cannot remember. On the rocky shores of Inis Muruch, she waits for her father, and begins to discover her own sexual identity even as she struggles to understand the forces that have torn her family apart.
- ISBN
- 0380976749
- LCCN
- 97036438
- OCLC
- 37806070
- ocm37806070
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries