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The gruesome truth hung in the air and none of us wanted to go near it. Not yet.Ireland 1848. Fourteen-year-old Rosaleen watches her mother die. Her country is reeling from the great potato famine which will ultimately kill more than one million people. Driven by a promise and her will to survive Rosaleen flees her small coastal town.She eventually arrives in America at the birth of the industrial revolution and is filled with hope and a new sense of independence. Yet the more Rosaleen becomes a part of this new world the more she longs for a community she lost and a young man she cant forget. Through a series of both heartwarming and tragic events Rosaleen learns that she cant outrun the problems that come along with being Irish. And maybe she doesnt want to.