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The year is 1934 and Edward Devlin, recently widowed and a disillusioned veteran of Ireland's struggle for independence, leaves his small daughter, Maura, behind in Ireland and heads for America with not much more than his memories and a lingering desire for his beautiful dead wife. His one tenuous connection is to a man named Fitzgibbon, owner of a silk-dyeing mill in Paterson, New Jersey. Fitz greets his fellow Irishman with hospitality, inviting Edward into his home and, ultimately, setting up a chain of events that will cause Fitz to lose everything and Edward to gain all he dared not hope for.
Moving from a small town in the north of Ireland to Depression-era Paterson to the New Jersey Shore, The Houseguest is an eloquent and morally complex novel that perfectly captures the rhythms of grief, hope, and humor that are indelible parts of the Irish-American experience.
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Robert Alexander
reviewed The Houseguest on January 27, 2009
The Houseguest
This book has the unusual quality of becoming more interesting as it goes along with the last few pages being the best. This is the third book in a row I've read that contains marital infidelity as a major component, which is something which I usually treat with the contempt that I think it deserves. My reaction in this book was that, as character Fitzgibbons puts it, "he marveled at the elegant workings of the arrangement and fervently wished he'd been its architect but knew that he hadn't been." I also love the way the town of Paterson is used almost as a character, for example this,"Paterson snorts. Instructs one of her legion of bartenders to be mean to you, to take a shot at your wife. Extinguishes half her street lights. Covers her moon. Puts rusted bicycles in your path." My feeling by the end was just relief for smart and brave little Maura.
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