The Mermaids Singing

by Carey, Lisa

• ISBN13: 9780380976744
• ISBN10: 0380976749
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-05-01
• Publisher: Avon Books

Summary

The voices of three generations of Irish-American women are woven together in this passionate novel of the love-hate relationships between mothers and daughters, and the irresistible pull of one's native land.Somewhere off the coast of west Ireland lies Inis Murach -- the Island of the Mermaids -- a world where myth is more powerful than truth, where the sea sings with the haunting voices of women, and where death is never as strong as the redemptive powers of family and love. It is here that Lisa Carey sets her lyrical and sensual first novel, weaving together the voices and lives of three generations of Irish and Irish-American women.When 15-year-old Grainne loses her mother to cancer, a grandmother she didn't know she had arrives to take her back to Ireland. Hoping to meet the father she has never known and learn the truth about her mother's past, Grainne agrees to accompany her grandmother across the ocean. On the rocky shores of Inis Murach -- her heart pulled between the life she left behind and a family she cannot remember -- Grainne begins to discover her own identity as a woman even as she struggles to understand the forces that have torn her family apart.-- Gorgeously written and highly accessible, this stirring novel will appeal to readers of Alice Hoffman, Anne Rivers Siddons, and Amy Tan.-- Seven foreign sales to date and audio rights to S & S Audio show that there is real buzz for this major novel.-- The Irish-American character