A review by zenithharpink
So Far From Home: the Diary of Mary Driscoll, an Irish Mill Girl, Lowell, Massachusetts, 1847 by Barry Denenberg

2.0

2.5 stars. This book was BRUTAL! So short that there was barely a story, and it was heartbreaking at every turn. While interesting in how life was in 3 keys phases of life in the mid-nineteenth century: 1) an Irish famine, 2) sea life in a hip bound for America, and 3) mill work as well as general life in America.

It's like the author hated his heroine, or at least during the course of his research decided there was nothing redeeming about the Irish migrant experience and wrote a depressing story to correspond.

I don't recommend this book.