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Crossing Highbridge

A Memoir of Irish America

By: Maureen Waters

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Paperback | 7 October 2019

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168 Pages

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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, <i>Crossing Highbridge</i> is a tribute to her father, for whom storytelling was an art of healing.

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In her moving memoir, Waters recounts her parents' divergent memories of growing up in Ireland and their emigration to the Bronx in the early twentieth century; she investigates how these versions of the
past helped shape her own identity as an Irish American.

|A touching meditation on her Irish immigrant family and her own life.

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