Lucky Enough - by Nancy Kerrigan (Paperback)

About the Book

The poems in Nancy Kerrigan's Lucky Enough: A Journey trace a life shaped by an Irish Catholic youth in Chicago, through love and heartbreak and illness, hard work and a new sort of life in Hartford, and off to Ireland to meet relatives and learn of ancestors. It's a journey through time, geography, and the labyrinths of the heart.

Book Synopsis

The poems in Nancy Kerrigan's Lucky Enough: A Journey trace a life shaped by an Irish Catholic youth in Chicago, through love and heartbreak and illness, to hard work and a new sort of life in Hartford, and off to Ireland to meet relatives and learn of ancestors. It's a journey through time, geography, and the labyrinths of the heart. You don't have to be Irish-American to relate to the emotions and evocations in this poetry collection.

Review Quotes

From Chicago to Hartford to Ireland and back, to the mind's eye and the heart of the home, through a life lived and into others imagined, hearing what mother said and feeling what a daughter hoped. Rosa on the bus, Kennedy in the car, a poet on Clare Island, a loving whisper in the ear...Count yourself fortunate to have Lucky Enough in yours.

-- Suzanne Strempek Shea, author of Becoming Finola

This collection pulses with an Irish heartbeat, but you don't have to be Irish to love its images, its emotions, its evocations of a time gone by and the time that lives on. Lucky us.

--- Tommy Shea, journalist and nonfiction author