Book description
1865. The American Civil War is ending. Eighteen years after the
famine ship Star of the Sea docked at New York, the daughter of
two of her passengers sets out from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on a walk
across a devastated America. Eliza Duane Mooney is searching for her
younger brother she has not seen in four years, one of the hundred
thousand children drawn into the war. His fate has been mysterious and
will prove extraordinary.
It's a walk that will have consequences for many seemingly
unconnected survivors: a love-struck cartographer, a haunted Latina
poetess, rebel guerrilla Cole McLaurenson, runaway slave Elizabeth
Longstreet and the mercurial revolutionary James Con O'Keeffe, who
commanded a brigade of Irish immigrants in the Union Army and is now
Governor of a western wilderness where nothing is as it seems.
Joseph O'Connor was born in Dublin. His novels include Cowboys
and Indians (Whitbread Prize shortlist), Star of the Sea
(Irish Post Award for Fiction, France's Prix
Millepages, Prix Madeleine Zepter for European Novel of the Year),
Redemption Falls, and Ghost Light (Dublin One City One
Book Novel, 2011). In 2012 he won the Irish PEN Award for
Outstanding Achievement in Literature. His work has been published in
thirty-five languages.
www. josephoconnorauthor. com
