Here Among Us
By Maggie Harryman
Print Length: 304 pages
Publisher: Straight On True
(October 1, 2012)
Genre: Literary Fiction
Book Synopsis:
When
unemployed San Francisco attorney, Flynn O’Shea, and her teenaged daughter,
Didi, are summoned to New Jersey for the Thanksgiving holiday by Flynn’s
socialite sister, Maeve, she expects a fight.
After all,
she has been battling Maeve most of her life. Disagreeing about the extent of
their Irish mother’s creeping dementia and the fate of the family’s thriving
restaurant business, named for their beloved, long dead father, Paddy, is
surely a recipe for a world-class brawl.
What Flynn
doesn’t expect is the fragile truce the sisters forge to save O’Shea’s from the
clutches of Maeve’s scheming husband, Jeffrey. Flynn and Maeve are reluctantly
aided by their forty-four-year-old brother, Osheen, a handsome Peter Pan still
cruising the Jersey shore, getting high and dodging responsibility.
And while
Didi tries to convince her mother that “everything is as it should be,” just
when Flynn is sure she’s gained the upper hand on Jeffrey, her own mother’s
shocking confession sends her into a wine-soaked tailspin and forces her to
deal once and for all with the ghosts of her past. Devastated, Flynn must
choose to save O’Shea’s or risk losing forever all she has left of her father.
In Here Among Us, the O’Sheas find
themselves dealing with the very timely issue of Alzheimer’s, a disease that
strips the victim's identity and wreaks havoc on the family left to pick up the
pieces. But Flynn, Osheen and Maeve’s troubles began long before their mother
started to “slip.” For the O’Sheas, much of their shared angst is rooted in the
single most devastating event of their lives—the death of their father when
they were young children. The novel explores not only how deep wounds can seem
impossible to heal, but how refusing to let go of the stories the O'Sheas
desperately cling to about who they are, threatens to hasten their demise.
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Author Bio
Maggie
Harryman was born in New Jersey and moved to San Francisco soon after college.
She received an MA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University and
spent the ensuing years working as a copywriter in various industries including
healthcare, tech and real estate/finance.
Maggie lives
in Northern California in the heart of wine country, has two wonderful children
in college and an old, faithful dog named, Humphrey.
Here Among Us is her debut novel. She also has two short stories on Amazon; Jesus,
Mary and Joseph Michael Duffy Has Arisen and Cleaning Naked.
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