Down by the River

in English, 265 pages,
Farrar Straus & Giroux , April 01, 1997
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Fourteen-year-old Mary McNamara does not know the words for what her father did to her down by the river, but she knows nothing will ever be the same again. In her small hometown in the West of Ireland, where poverty and ignorance make people hard, bitter, and unforgiving, Mary will find scant justice or mercy when her private tragedy is dragged into the public arena. “A heady blend of insight, intellect, and poetry”.–“The New York Times Book Review”.