Ask Again, Yes

'A powerful and moving novel of family, trauma, and the defining moments in people's lives from a writer of extraordinary depth, feeling and wit. Readers will love this book, as I did' Meg Wolitzer, bestselling author of The Female Persuasion and The Wife _____________ 
A gripping and compassionate family drama set between neighbours in suburban New York
Gillam, upstate New York: a town of ordinary, big-lawned suburban houses. The Gleesons have recently moved there and soon welcome the Stanhopes as their new neighbours. Lonely Lena Gleeson wants a friend but Anne Stanhope - cold, elegant, unstable - wants to be left alone.
It's up to their children - Lena's youngest, Kate, and Anne's only child, Peter - to find their way to one another. To form a friendship whose resilience and love will be almost broken by the fault line dividing both families, and by the terrible tragedy that will engulf them all. A tragedy whose true origins only become clear many years later . . .
A story of love and redemption, faith and forgiveness, Ask Again, Yes reveals the way childhood memories change when viewed from the distance of adulthood - villains lose their menace, and those who appeared innocent seem less so. A story of how, if we're lucky, the violence lurking beneath everyday life can be vanquished by the power of love. _____________ 
'Keane takes on one of the most difficult problems in fiction - how to write about human decency . . . a compelling case for compassion over blame, understanding over grudge, and the resilience of hearts that can accept the contradictions of love' Louise Erdrich, National Book Award winning author of The Round House 
'Leaves one shaking one's head in frank admiration. A triumph' Matthew Thomas, bestselling author of We Are Not Ourselves

Literature & Fiction

Keane, Mary Beth

Literary

Michael, Joseph

THE POWERFUL AND MOVING NOVEL OF NEW BEGINNINGS AND OLD FAMILY SECRETS FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ASK AGAIN, YES\n'An epic story about immigration, identity and family' Hannah Beckerman, Guardian\n'The characters are so well drawn and out of the ordinary that I was quickly drawn into their story and didn't want it to end' 5***** Reader Review\n'A gorgeous nostalgic family drama with real characters. Loved it' 5***** Reader Review 
______\n1960s Rural Ireland. Greta Cahill must abandon her deserted village to follow her fearless sister Johanna on a ship bound for New York . . .\nIt's here that she steps out of her sister's shadow and into a life of her own, rich with love, work and family.\nAs the years pass, Greta longs to revisit the past - to see her mother, to show her what she has made of herself.\nBut she must protect a family secret, decades old.\nSo when her children conspire to unite the worlds she's kept so carefully apart, Greta fears she could lose it all . . .\nA profoundly moving, compassionate story of self-discovery, The Walking People is a powerful and compelling story about our connection to the past. 
______\n'Keane's previous novel Ask Again, Yes, was on my best Books of 2019, and this is just as good. Its slow, melodic pace proves we don't always need fast action and twists' Prima, 'Best Books of March'\n'Engrossing . . . Captures the windswept grittiness of Irish poverty as vividly as the technicolour hustle and bustle of 1960s New York. The Walking People is the kind of novel you simply don't want to end' Daily Express\n'Atmospheric, moving and brilliantly well-written' Daily Mail\nPraise for Mary Beth Keane:\n'A fearless writer' Lisa Taddeo, author of Three Women\n'A novel of great compassion and understanding . . . rich with story' John Boyne\n'I'll read everything she writes' Liane Moriarty, author of Big Little Lies\n'A writer of extraordinary depth, feeling and wit' Meg Wolitzer, author of The Female Persuasion\n'Immersive and deeply moving' Anna Hope, author of Expectation\n'It's an absolute stunner, an ode to family and forgiveness that has been crafted with compassion and insight' Sara Collins, author of The Confessions of Frannie Langton

The Walking People: The powerful and moving story from the New York Times bestselling author of Ask Again, Yes

Parenting & Relationships

Greta Cahill never believed she would leave her village in the west of Ireland until she found herself on a ship bound for New York, along with her sister Johanna and a boy named Michael Ward. Labeled a "softheaded goose" by her family, Greta discovers that in America she can fall in love, raise her own family, and earn a living. Though she longs to return and show her family what she has made of herself, her decision to spare her children knowledge of a secret in her past forces her to keep her life in New York separate from the life she once loved in Ireland, and tears her apart from the people she is closest to. Even fifty years later, when the Ireland of her memory bears little resemblance to that of present day, she fears that it is still possible to lose all when she discovers that her children—with the best of intentions— have conspired to unite the worlds she’s so carefully kept separate for decades. A beautifully old-fashioned novel, The Walking People is a debut of remarkable range and power.

The Walking People

United States

Houghton, mifflin, harcourt

Greta Cahill never believed she would leave her village in the west of Ireland until she found herself on a ship bound for New York, along with her sister Johanna and a boy named Michael Ward. Labeled a "softheaded goose" by her family, Greta discovers that in America she can fall in love, raise her own family, and earn a living. Though she longs to return and show her family what she has made of herself, her decision to spare her children knowledge of a secret in her past forces her to keep her life in New York separate from the life she once loved in Ireland, and tears her apart from the people she is closest to. Even fifty years later, when the Ireland of her memory bears little resemblance to that of present day, she fears that it is still possible to lose all when she discovers that her children—with the best of intentions— have conspired to unite the worlds she’s so carefully kept separate for decades. A beautifully old-fashioned novel, The Walking People has remarkable range and power.

Mariner Books

Walking People

Penguin

The Half Moon

Presents a fictionalized account of the life of Typhoid Mary, an Irish immigrant who moved to New York at the turn of the century and became a successful cook, until the Department of Health noticed the trail of disease she left behind.

Fever (Thorndike Press Large Print Core Series)

Thorndike Press

Basada en la verdadera historia que conmovió a la sociedad neoyorquina de principios del siglo xx. En 1883, con apenas quince años, Mary Mallon abandonó Irlanda para forjarse un futuro en Nueva York. Valiente y obstinada, logró cumplir el sueño de convertirse en cocinera, ascendiendo desde los más bajos escalafones del servicio doméstico. Con el tiempo, y gracias a sus aptitudes culinarias, se la disputarían las familias aristocráticas de Nueva York. Pero esa independencia, tan infrecuente para una mujer de su época, resulto poco duradera. Mary había dejado un rastro de fiebre tifoidea en las casas donde trabajo. Cuando un&nbsp;«ingeniero sanitario»&nbsp;la identificó&nbsp;como la primera portadora asintomática de la enfermedad, es decir la primera persona que sin desarrollar la enfermedad puede contagiar a otra, Mary pasó&nbsp;a ser conocida como&nbsp;«Mary Tifoidea», a un tiempo persona célebre y mujer vilipendiada por infectar a miembros de las mejores familias.&nbsp; Gracias a la inspirada recreación de Mary Beath Keane, Mary Tifoidea se convierte en una fascinante heroína. Su historia, tan asombrosa como verídica, resulta inolvidable.&nbsp; &nbsp; «Un enternecedor y detallado retrato del colapso de la ignorancia ante la verdad [...] Una gran novela».- The New York Times Book Review «En las hábiles manos de Keane, Mary Mallon se convierte en un personaje comprensible, complejo e inspirador. Fiebre no es sólo una atractiva novela para lectores interesados en los misterios médicos, también conmoverá a quienes hayan sufrido alguna vez las consecuencias de los rumores y la hipocresía».&nbsp;&nbsp;- O, The Oprah Magazine&nbsp; MARY BETH KEANE nació en Nueva York de padres irlandeses. Estudió en Barnard College y en la Universidad de Virginia, donde obtuvo su maestría en Ficción. En 2011, fue nombrada una de las&nbsp;«mejores autoras de menos de 35 años»&nbsp;por la National Book Foundation.&nbsp;

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Genre Fiction

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER **The Tonight Show Summer Reads Pick** �One of the most unpretentiously profound books I've read in a long time�modestly magnificent.� �Maureen Corrigan, Fresh Air �A beautiful novel, bursting at the seams with empathy.� �Elle How much can a family forgive? A profoundly moving novel about two neighboring families in a suburban town, the friendship between their children, a tragedy that reverberates over four decades, the daily intimacies of marriage, and the power of forgiveness. Francis Gleeson and Brian Stanhope, rookie cops in the NYPD, live next door to each other outside the city. What happens behind closed doors in both houses�the loneliness of Francis�s wife, Lena, and the instability of Brian�s wife, Anne, sets the stage for the explosive events to come. Ask Again, Yes is a deeply affecting exploration of the lifelong friendship and love that blossoms between Kate Gleeson and Peter Stanhope, born six months apart. One shocking night their loyalties are divided, and their bond will be tested again and again over the next 40 years. Luminous, heartbreaking, and redemptive, Ask Again, Yes reveals the way childhood memories change when viewed from the distance of adulthood�villains lose their menace and those who appeared innocent seem less so. Kate and Peter�s love story, while haunted by echoes from the past, is marked by tenderness, generosity, and grace.

Ask Again, Yes (Thorndike Press Large Print Basic)

Thorndike Pr

A bold, mesmerizing novel about the woman known as “Typhoid Mary,” the first known healthy carrier of typhoid fever in the early twentieth century—by an award-winning writer chosen as one of “5 Under 35” by the National Book Foundation. Mary Beth Keane, named one of the 5 Under 35 by the National Book Foundation, has written a spectacularly bold and intriguing novel about the woman known as “Typhoid Mary,” the first person in America identified as a healthy carrier of Typhoid Fever. On the eve of the twentieth century, Mary Mallon emigrated from Ireland at age fifteen to make her way in New York City. Brave, headstrong, and dreaming of being a cook, she fought to climb up from the lowest rung of the domestic-service ladder. Canny and enterprising, she worked her way to the kitchen, and discovered in herself the true talent of a chef. Sought after by New York aristocracy, and with an independence rare for a woman of the time, she seemed to have achieved the life she’d aimed for when she arrived in Castle Garden. Then one determined “medical engineer” noticed that she left a trail of disease wherever she cooked, and identified her as an “asymptomatic carrier” of Typhoid Fever. With this seemingly preposterous theory, he made Mallon a hunted woman. The Department of Health sent Mallon to North Brother Island, where she was kept in isolation from 1907 to 1910, then released under the condition that she never work as a cook again. Yet for Mary—proud of her former status and passionate about cooking—the alternatives were abhorrent. She defied the edict. Bringing early-twentieth-century New York alive—the neighborhoods, the bars, the park carved out of upper Manhattan, the boat traffic, the mansions and sweatshops and emerging skyscrapers—Fever is an ambitious retelling of a forgotten life. In the imagination of Mary Beth Keane, Mary Mallon becomes a fiercely compelling, dramatic, vexing, sympathetic, uncompromising, and unforgettable heroine.

Fever: A Novel

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Ask Again, Yes

The Walking People: The powerful and moving story from the New York Times bestselling author of Ask Again, Yes

The Walking People

The Walking People

Walking People

The Half Moon

Fever (Thorndike Press Large Print Core Series)

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Ask Again, Yes (Thorndike Press Large Print Basic)

Fever: A Novel