Description:
In Tessa's Landing we see the sorrow and triumph of the Irish immigrant experience, and how one girl's self-determination leads to survival in a new world.
Brief description: Maureen Brady has published the novels Getaway; Ginger's Fire; Folly; and Give Me Your Good Ear; a collection of short stories, The Question She Put to Herself; and the nonfiction Daybreak: Meditations for Women Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse; Midlife: Meditations for Women; and Beyond Survival. She lives between Woodstock, New York, and New York City.
Review Quotes:
"A heartwarming story I didn't want to put down."
-Suzanne Harrington, History Quill
"A rite of passage story in more ways than one. Tessa came through the storm literally and figuratively, and her landing was in the security of a new life..."
-Carol Mealing, History Quill
"With a perilous sea voyage at its heart...Tessa's Landing reminds us that courage is not so much to be found in facing our challenges, but in how we do so...In this tale, a marvelously imagined vision of the Irish-American emigrant experience, the heroine is a true survivor: a woman of her time, speaking directly to our own."
-Patrick Chapman, author of The Following Year