The Homecoming Seasons: An Irish Catholic Returns to a Changing Long Island - Paperback
by James P. Macguire (Author)
The Homecoming Seasons: An Irish Catholic Returns to a Changing Long Island is James P. MacGuire's poignant memoir of returning to his childhood hometown on the South Shore of Long Island to raise his own family, re-encountering its natural wetland beauty, his late parents' now older friends, and making new ones in a community undergoing transition. The quarter century that the book details is filled with life, death, triumph, and loss, and chronicles, above and below its surface, a fragile yet ultimately resilient world.
James P. MacGuire was born in New York, grew up on Long Island, and was educated at Johns Hopkins and Cambridge. After serving as country program director for Catholic Relief Services in Burundi, he has worked at Time Inc., Macmillan, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and the UK Catholic Herald. His poetry, fiction and journalism have appeared in many national publications.
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