[bksvol-discuss] Just submitted
- From: "solsticesinger" <solsticesinger@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 10:57:41 -0500
Hi, all.
I have just submitted The Mermaids Singing by Lisa Carey to step one. Kurzy
gave it a 99.8 rating. There are some Irish words and names that could mess
with the spell check a bit, but the scan is clean. Page breaks have been
protected, and headers removed. If you need anything, contact:
solsticesinger@xxxxxxxxx
Here is the synopsis:
There is an island off the west coast of Ireland called Inis Muruch-the Island
of the Mermaids-a world where myth is more powerful than truth, where the sea
sings with the healing and haunting voices of women, and where death is never
as strong as the redemptive powers of family and love. It is here that Lisa
Carey sets her lyrical and sensual first novel, weaving together the voices and
lives of three generations of Irish-American women.
Years ago, Cliona-strong, proud and practical-sailed for Boston, determined to
one day come home. But when the time came to return to Inis Muruch, her daughter
Grace-fierce, beautiful, and brazenly sexual-resented her mother's isolated,
unfamiliar world. Though entranced by the sea and its healing powers, Grace
became desperate to escape the confines of the island, one day stealing away
with her small daughter Grainne.
Now Grainne-motherless at thirteen after Grace's death from breast cancer is
about to be taken back across the ocean by Cliona, repeating the journey her
mother was forced to make years before. She goes to meet a father she has never
known, her heart pulled between a life where she no longer belongs to a family
she cannot remember. On the rocky slopes of Inis Muruch, she waits for her
father, and begins to discover her own sexual identity even as she struggles to
understand the forces that have torn her family apart.
Shannon
Who can heal, but one who has healed herself?
Who can know, but one who has asked and sought?
Who can lead, but one who has traveled the way?
--ancient French proverb
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