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An exquisite portrait of an Irish-American family shadowed by the death of a child.
As aged Maureen Murphy lays dying in a New York hospital and her three grown children maintain a weary vigil, their lives unfold in a tapestry of remembrance and reflection through the turbulent decades of the postwar era. Missing is a fourth sibling: Michaela, whose polio death in 1953 colors everything that follows. Michaela is a stunning debut in the spirit of Colm Tóibín and Alice McDermott.
Frank Kirby was raised in the New York City borough of Queens and lives in Ridgefield, Connecticut. He earned a BA in creative writing and literature from the State University of New York at Purchase, and master's degrees in international finance (City University of New York) and education (Fairfield University). He has had successful careers as a chief financial officer and, later, as a high school English teacher, but he has always been a writer of fiction. This is his first published novel.
