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In ordinary time
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- Book Synopsis
- In 1993, aged twenty, Carmel Mc Mahon left Ireland for New York, carrying two suitcases and a ton of unseen baggage. It took years, and a bitter struggle with alcohol addiction, to unpick the intricate traumas of her past and present. Candid yet lyrical, In Ordinary Time mines the ways that trauma reverberates through time and through individual lives, drawing connections to the events and rhythms of Ireland's long Celtic, early Christian and Catholic history. From tragically lost siblings to the broader social scars of the Famine and the Magdalene Laundries, Mc Mahon sketches the evolution of a consciousness - from her conservative 1970s upbringing to 1990s New York, and back to the much-changed Ireland of today.
- About The Author
- Carmel Mc Mahon grew up in County Meath, and lived in New York City 1993-2021, when she returned to renovate a house on Ireland's west coast. A graduate of CUNY, her writing has been published in the Irish Times, Humanities Review and Roanoke Review, and shortlisted for the Hennessy Literary Award.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9780715655184
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Duckworth, (01 February 2024)
- Number of Pages
- 256
- Weight
- 230 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 198 x 129 x 22 mm
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