Beyond the Western coast of Ireland lies the Great Blasket Island. It was once home to a small, fiercely independent community of people but by November 1953 the island had been abandoned forever. We follow the fate of one family, the Kearneys, and their search for new lives in America.
Maggie vowed to never marry a man who can’t laugh or dance, but when she and the dull new doctor in town, Everett Dulanis, wind up spending the night together in an abandoned dugout house, all that changes. Her father is the best man and his shotgun is the bridesmaid at the wedding where a union has been made, but there’s certainly no unity. Everett was engaged to Carolina Prescott, a southern lady in...