The Hungry Water

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The unforgettable sequel to The Hunger House. Ballina, County Mayo, Ireland, 1851.

Mary Mahon has buried nearly everyone she loved.

Now she boards a famine ship for America,

the price of a stolen farm sewn into her hem,

a girl she couldn’t leave on the quay at her side.

The crossing nearly kills her. New York is worse.

A smiling army of thieves at the wharf.

Doors that shut at the sound of her name.

A cholera summer that empties the cellars.

So she sets out to build the one thing the city never will:

an open door for the lost coming off the boats.

But some griefs cross oceans to find you.

Mary’s has already bought its passage west.