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“Her storytelling gifts as transmitted through the voice of her narrator, the second eldest brother, Mac, are magical.”
“He came to New York to visit every year and some of Mac’s impressions of Montana were borrowed from his experience.”
“Would they be looking at a house full of Irish kids instead of a house full of Yanks?”
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“Mary Beth Keane’s Whale Harbor , her fifth novel, was a revelation.”
“I enjoy reading a novel written in the first person, but writing one, for me, has always felt a little insincere.”
“MBK: This was one of the biggest challenges of the early drafts.”
“But home was home and that was always Ireland.”
“I can see things about a character—in this case Mac—that he can’t see about himself.”
“Despite all this overlap, however, the novel truly is a fiction.”
“And so there is a kind of grief that’s just baseline in the new immigrants I knew growing up.”
“I didn’t know how guilty my father still felt about that until he was in his last days and kept talking about it.” * Jane Ciabattari: You mention in an author’s note that Whale Harbor shares “certain plot points” with your father’s life, and that he grew up in an Irish-speaking village in Connemara, the second of eleven siblings.”
“How were you able to develop the scenes of the Irish in Montana?”
“He is innocent and deeply kind and I thought of him as the heart of the family.”
“JC: Why did you choose the third person point of view, with Mac, the second eldest brother, as your key narrator?”
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“(Butte figures in a few early scenes.) He was equally enthralled (he said he found this tale of eleven brothers in the Irish diaspora “captivating”).”
“Her reviews, interviews and cultural criticism have appeared in NPR, BBC Culture, the New York Times Book Review, the Guardian, Bookforum, Paris Review, the Washington Post, Boston Globe, and the Los Angeles Times , among other publications.”
“MBK: Not much research was involved at all, because the town is based on the village where my father is from.”
“All the things we say and do mean themselves but also something else.”