Age range: Older teen/adult

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Editorial Reviews
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“A dazzlingly talented author’s latest high-wire act . . . Reminiscent of the finest work of Michael Ondaatje and Michael Cunningham, TransAtlantic is Colum McCann’s most penetrating novel yet.”—O: The Oprah Magazine

“What distinguishes TransAtlantic from [Colum] McCann’s earlier work isn’t the stunning language or the psychological acuity or the humor and imagination on display—all of that has been there before. It’s the sheer ambition, the audacity to imagine within the same novel the experience of Frederick Douglass in 1845 . . . then the first nonstop trans-Atlantic flight in 1919 . . . then to leap into the near-present and embody the former senator George Mitchell, . . . knitting through and around them the stories of four generations of women.”—The New York Times Magazine

“One of the greatest pleasures of TransAtlantic is how provisional it makes history feel, how intimate, and intensely real. . . . Here is the uncanny thing McCann finds again and again about the miraculous: that it is inseparable from the everyday.”—The Boston Globe

“Ingenious . . . The intricate connections [McCann] has crafted between the stories of his women and our men [seem] written in air, in water, and—given that his subject is the confluence of Irish and American history—in blood.”—Esquire

“Another sweeping, beautifully constructed tapestry of life . . . Reading McCann is a rare joy.”—The Seattle Times

“Entrancing . . . McCann folds his epic meticulously into this relatively slim volume like an accordion; each pleat holds music—elation and sorrow.”—The Denver Post

Released to our "fox run" little free library at 25 Burgess Farm Rd, Dracut, MA

Found this in the LFL on this beautiful day while stopping by to drop off some books of my own; couldn't resist nabbing this one. It's a novel that weaves fact with fiction, with several transatlantic crossings between Ireland and North America; one of those is the flight of Alcock and Brown in 1919, the first non-stop transatlantic flight. (They landed in an Irish bog, but survived - though, sadly, Alcock died within the year, flying in WWI. Brown outlived him, but lost his own son in the RAF in WWII, and did not survive that loss long.)

Another plot-thread with a transatlantic crossing: the 1845 visit of Frederick Douglass to Ireland - quite a contrast, in characters, transportation, and mission.

The third crossing featured former Senator George Mitchell, who as US Special Envoy for Northern Ireland, visited the country in 1998 to help with the negotiations of the peace.

The novel takes these events and shows them through the eyes of different women across time - sometimes adding an unexpected perspective.

Guidelines for safely visiting and stocking Little Free Libraries during the COVID-19 pandemic, from the LFL site here.

I left this book in the Little Free Library outside the dentist office on this warm day; hope someone enjoys it!

[See other recent releases in NH here.]

*** Released for the 2020 Keep Them Moving challenge. ***

Retrieved this from the Little Free Library while out hunting.