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Maureen Waters began writing about the Bronx in the spirit of dinnseachas, Irish place lore, as a means of recuperating from the accidental death of her son, whose story frames her own. Writing her memoir has meant coming to terms with the powerful matriarchal voices that inspired both affection and immobilizing guilt.

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In her moving memoir, Waters recounts her parents’ divergent memories of growing up in Ireland and their emigration to the Bronx in the early twentieth century; she investigates how these versions of the
past helped shape her own identity as an Irish American.

|A touching meditation on her Irish immigrant family and her own life.

Crossing Highbridge A Memoir of Irish America

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      Publisher: Syracuse University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 10/30/2019 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780815606932, 978-0815606932
      ISBN10: 0815606931
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Maureen Waters began writing about the Bronx in the spirit of dinnseachas, Irish place lore, as a means of recuperating from the accidental death of her son, whose story frames her own. Writing her memoir has meant coming to terms with the powerful matriarchal voices that inspired both affection and immobilizing guilt.

      Trade Review

      In her moving memoir, Waters recounts her parents’ divergent memories of growing up in Ireland and their emigration to the Bronx in the early twentieth century; she investigates how these versions of the
      past helped shape her own identity as an Irish American.

      |A touching meditation on her Irish immigrant family and her own life.

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