Having the story from Nory's perspective also authenticated the struggle caused by the times. She included Irish Gaelic words in the characters' speech and provided a translation and pronunciation glossary at the beginning of the book. I think that the author, Patricia Reilly Giff, did a great job portraying the setting in both place and time.
There isn't much action because the focus is on the family and the choices that must be made.
I enjoyed reading this book, though I can see where children might find it a little slow. Will she ever reunite with them? Will she stay in Ireland through the famine or join Maggie and Patch in America? Instead, Nory sends Patch with Mallons, leaving her without any family at all. Nory and Patch stay with Anna Donnelly until the Mallons come with an extra ticket to America for Nory.
Struggling to find food and work, the Ryans are torn apart again when Granda and Celia leave, hoping to find Nory's father on the road to Gallway. Then the famine hits, destroying the potatoes, leaving the country largely without food and with no crop to harvest and sell. As neighbors are evicted by their English landlord and more time passes without word from her father, twelve-year-old Nory dreams of the family following Maggie to New York where the streets are paved with diamonds. Hoping to find a better life and make one less burden for the Ryan family, Nory's oldest sister, Maggie, marries her fiance and moves to Brooklyn, New York, leaving Nory with Granda, Celia, and Patch. Urn:oclc:796902132 Republisher_date 20121016135517 Republisher_operator Scandate 20121016031703 Scanner More off in Gallway working as a fisherman in order to support the family. Urn:lcp:noryryanssong00patr:epub:e40bb24c-5fa0-446d-8c0b-531d88b6b88d Extramarc OhioLINK Library Catalog Foldoutcount 0 Identifier noryryanssong00patr Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t1bk2n76p Isbn 0440418291ĩ780440418290 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary_edition
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