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I’ll Know It When I See It: A Daughter’s Search for Home in Ireland Alice Carey Ex Libris Used Books

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SKU: mode_8187602829539 Category: Uncategorized Tags: first edition, ireland, irish literature, Memoir, nf, november 2023

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Although the author opens with a visit to her mother’s native Ireland at 12 and ends with lighting candles in her new home in County Cork four decades later, this is no nostalgic memoir about getting back to your roots. Alice Carey has crafted a tough-minded examination of her complicated relationship with her heritage, a warm tribute to the theatrical free spirits who helped liberate her from an unhappy childhood. She grew up in Queens; her father often hit her and flew into a rage when his wife dared to augment the family’s meager finances by working as a maid for Broadway producer Jed Harris. Helping Mammie in the afternoons, Alice glimpsed a glamorous, sophisticated world beyond the constraints of Catholic school and Celtic fatalism. She moved to Greenwich Village in her teens and made her life as a Manhattanite with a weekend home in Fire Island. When AIDS decimated that community in the 1990s, she and her husband moved to Ireland. Making an 18th-century farmhouse habitable is a black comedy Carey describes with a sardonic wit that echoes her Irish forebears and gay friends but is uniquely her own (she names “the Seven Dwarves of Restoration: Happy, Reluctant, Fearful, Suspicious, Wary, Hopeful, and Doubtful”). Her journey towards a new identity as “a real New Yorker living in Ireland” is all the more moving because it is chronicled with sharp perceptiveness and without sentimentality. –Wendy Smith

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I’ll Know It When I See It: A Daughter’s Search for Home in Ireland Alice Carey Ex Libris Used Books

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