Brave Hearts: A San Francisco Story: The Grit and Dreams of an Irish Immigrant Family

Brave Hearts is an unforgettable story of grit, bravery, love and determination set in the colorful San Francisco Bay area, showing us all what it is to be human, family, and devoted. Telling her ancestors stories through historical fiction and nonfiction narrative, Jean Mahoney writes of four generations of immigrants, travelers, settlers, survivors, artists, homemakers, business owners, dressmakers, house painters and farmers in the San Francisco Bay Area. Beginning with an ocean crossing from Ireland in the 1840s, the family experiences the 1906 earthquake, a devastating train wreck, farming, drought and family tragedy with remarkable resilience. Poignant, harrowing and ultimately triumphant, Brave Hearts tells a quintessential American story through the unique lens of a gifted writer.