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

2.0

This one was just very poorly executed. Maybe it's just the fat kid in me, but after pages and pages of Mary starving in Ireland and then on the ship to America, I wanted some follow up on if she got to eat better in America. There was very little of that. She also wasn't very upset when she found out her parents were dead. And the whole thing with Clarissa losing her scalp was so brief and Mary was so unbothered by that as well that I kind of think she was a psychopath in the making! Oh, well. She died two years later.