Bullied because of the English father he barely remembers, fourteen-year-old Liam gladly leaves Connemara, Ireland, in 1901 with his uncle and sister, but his problems follow them to Hell's Kitchen in New York City, until he finds a way to leave the past behind.
year: 2007
call number/section: 1000
subjects: emigration and immigration, fiction, immigrants, irish americans, prejudices, family, new york (n.y.), history, 1898-1951, fiction, ireland, 1837-1901