The Best of Intentions, Unforeseen Circumstances: An Irish-American Family Memoir
- ISBN-10
- 0981789870
- ISBN-13
- 9780981789873
- Category
- Irish Americans
- Pages
- 166
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010
- Author
- Laurence P. Keenan
Description
This memoir begins with Elizabeth Theresa McManus's birth in a humble triplex in an Irish-American neighborhood next to an industrial factory. The story describes the family's drive to succeed, workaholic parents in good times and sad ones, hard work and risk-taking in the family business, disastrous store fires, political ambitions, unpredictable nor'easters, and the infirmities of old age. It is a tale of bittersweet family differences complicated by failures to communicate and concludes with a newfound admiration for the remarkable oil paintings Elizabeth left to her heirs.
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