Abstract:
The risk of death faced them either way. The McKelvies chose the constant roar and force of the ocean in a “coffin” ship to America over starvation in Ireland.

The widowed Sally and daughters struggle for mere existence in impoverished nineteenth century America’s The Five Point’s slum in New York City. No Irish need apply. Later, two sisters desperately long to restore their broken family after they are torn apart. For years they experience very different lives. Devastating losses, a Civil war, a healing, a coming together from Separate Paths.