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

The author of this book has written some other 'Dear America' books, but this one has been my favorite of his so far. It's fitting I read this one the month before going out to Ireland.

I knew of the Great Famine, but this got me interested to learn more about it, and it doesn't surprise me about what ended up happening later with Ireland wanting their independence from England (with how England handled the famine of Irish folk).

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Death, Xenophobia, Abandonment, Ableism, Animal death, Child death, Alcohol, Chronic illness, Classism, Hate crime, Death of parent, Religious bigotry, Terminal illness, Excrement, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Vomit