Join Ashley E. Sweeney for a book signing on the main floor of Village Books celebrating her newest novel!
Feisty and resilient thirteen-year-old Mary Agnes Coyne, forced from her family home in western Ireland after an accusation of incest, endures a treacherous sea voyage alone across the Atlantic in 1886. With only a few pounds to her name and a letter to a parish priest in her pocket, Mary Agnes begins her new life in America. From the squalid tenements of New York to the rough alleys of Chicago, Mary Agnes suffers the bitter taste of discrimination for the crime of being poor, Catholic, and Irish. After moving west to Colorado, she again faces hardship with an indomitable spirit. A rich family saga of history, heritage, and matters of the heart.
A native New Yorker, Ashley E. Sweeney is the winner of the Nancy Pearl Book Award and more than a dozen other literary awards for her novels Eliza Waite, Answer Creek, and Hardland.
