Decanted Truths

For Irish immigrant families like the Harrigans and Gavagans, struggle has been the name of the game since they arrived in Boston in the nineteenth century. For twice-orphaned Leah Gavagan, who comes of age in the Depression, the struggle is compounded by bizarre visions that disrupt her daily life--and sometimes come true. Then, a death in the family disrupts Leah's tepid life path and sets her on a journey of discovery, one that had originated with the misadventures shaping the family's earlier generation, one eager to prove its hard-won American credentials in the Alaskan gold rush, the Spanish-American War, and The Great War. Ultimately, Leah learns she is not who she thought she was. Her new truth both blinds and dazzles her, much like the Waterford decanter at the center of her oldest dream--an artifact linking three Irish-American families stumbling toward the American Dream.