The Mermaids Singing by Lisa Carey

The Mermaids Singing

by Lisa Carey

The story of three generations of Irish-American women--grandmother, mother and daughter--tracing the similarity of their lives, even as each generation rebels and tries to be different.

Reviewed by wyvernfriend on

4 of 5 stars

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The story of three generations of women and how their lives mirror each other, yet stay different. What they are all looking for is love and a home but the searching doesn't always find what they're looking for.
This is one of the few books I've read by someone from the US that doesn't make me want to get annoyed because they dwell on comparing Ireland to the US. This just describes how things are and lets the reader decide.
I really did enjoy the story, I'm glad that my curiousity about some LT Authors made me hunt it up and read it. I would recommend it as a read.
The echoes of Graineuaile and mermaids in the story were well done as well.

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