Recent high school graduate Cecelia O’Malley leaves her home in Phoebus, VA, and returns to her Irish roots in South Boston. From there she journeys to Central Square in Cambridge, and finally to the beaches of Rio, searching for a new home. Historic fiction from the ’60’s and ’70’s.
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Worth reading Joanne Brasil’s novel tells the story of the author’s move from the south to Boston and her bittersweet relationship with a talented Brazilian music student. The musician is presumably based at least in part on the author’s late husband, Victor Brasil (the composer of “Creek” aka “Arroyo”, recorded by Airto Moreira, and other popular Brazilian jazz pieces), to whom the novel is dedicated.The narrator, a young white woman, tries to understand the different facets of…
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