{"product_id":"crossing-highbridge-a-memoir-of-irish-america-9780815606826","title":"Crossing Highbridge: A Memoir of Irish America","description":"Maureen Waters began writing about the Bronx in the spirit of dinnseachas, Irish place lore, as a means of recuperating from the accidental death of her son, whose story frames her own. Finding her way through the disorienting 1960s, after a girlhood tutored by nuns and inspired by the Holy Ghost, she set out on a kind of spiritual journey to recover what was valuable and life-sustaining in the Irish Catholic experience left behind. Writing her memoir meant coming to terms with the powerful matriarchal voices that inspired both affection and immobilizing guilt. Ultimately, \u003ci\u003eCrossing Highbridge\u003c\/i\u003e is a tribute to her father, for whom storytelling was an art of healing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Syracuse University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780815606826\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 149\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.92lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.33h x 6.28w x 0.72d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eWomen's Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2001 pg. 22\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCommonweal\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/22\/2002 pg. 22\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2001 pg. 59\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Maureen Waters","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41352446509237,"sku":"9780815606826","price":21.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_87cb9ca3-30af-400d-9bd1-72654af31f61.jpg?v=1637033812","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/crossing-highbridge-a-memoir-of-irish-america-9780815606826","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}