Plentiful Country: The Great Potato Famine and the Making of Irish New York -- Tyler Anbinder, Hardcover Fiction - Adult understanding

understanding

let their children walk home alone

and your losses can teach you

not since her parents divorced and her mother spitefully whisked her away to Boston

Plentiful Country: The Great Potato Famine and the Making of Irish New York -- Tyler Anbinder, Hardcover Fiction - Adult understandingFrom the award winning author of Five Points and City of Dreams, "a superb revisionist history" of the Irish immigrants who arrived in the United States during the Great Potato Famine, using their "riveting and deeply personal stories" in and beyond New York exemplify the astonishing tenacity and improbable triumph of Irish America (Wall Street Journal). In 1845, a fungus began to destroy Ireland's potato crop, triggering a famine that would kill one