The Law of Dreams: A Novel
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ISBN: 0812978005 / Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks, August 2007
After witnessing the deaths of his family during the mid-nineteenth-century Irish Potato Famine, Fergus O'Brien leaves Ireland in search of a new life, making his way to Liverpool, Wales, and finally across the Atlantic to Canada and the United States, in a historical novel based on the author's own family history.
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Driven from the only home he has known during Ireland’s Great Hunger of 1847, Fergus O’Brien makes the harrowing journey from County Clare to America, traveling with bold girls, pearl boys, navvies, and highwaymen. Along the way, Fergus meets his three passionate loves–Phoebe, Luke, and Molly–vivid, unforgettable characters, fresh and willful.Based on Peter Behrens’s own family history, The Law of Dreams is lyrical, emotional, and thoroughly extraordinary–a searing tale of ardent struggle and ultimate perseverance.
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