Trespassers - by Aine Greaney (Paperback)

About the Book

From coastal Massachusetts to rural Ireland, the characters in Trespassers struggle to reconcile past and present, place and displacement, loss and hope.

Book Synopsis

From coastal Massachusetts to rural Ireland, the characters in Trespassers struggle to reconcile past and present, place and displacement, loss and hope.

Review Quotes

Áine Greaney has her finger on the pulse of the transnational Irish experience and the challenges of contemporary feminism. Trespassers brilliantly engages themes of aging, gender, sexuality, and the family to depict an empowered but entrapped Irish diaspora in the throes of identity formation. Simultaneously rife with nostalgia for home and the fierce desire for success in the economically and socially brutal environs of Cape Cod and Boston, Greaney's collection is an exemplary illustration of the Irish immigrant presence in New England."
--Ellen Scheible, author of Body Politics in Contemporary Irish Women's Fiction:
The Literary Legacy of Mother Ireland

"What a perfect title Áine Greaney has put on this poised and closely wrought collection. Her characters (most of them Irish women) dwell in spaces where they never feel completely at home. One woman feels that there is 'a constant scrim between herself and the world'; another reveals that 'dark things flit around the edges of her mind, like a wasp at the window.' They are indeed trespassers into awkward emotional terrains--and their successes are usually triumphs of adaptation and endurance."
--James Silas Rogers, author of Irish-American Autobiography: The Divided Hearts of Athletes, Priests, Pilgrims, and More

About the Author

Born and raised in rural Ireland, Áine Greaney now lives and writes in coastal Massachusetts. In addition to her published books, her short works have appeared in Creative Nonfiction, Another Chicago Magazine, The Boston Globe Magazine, The New York Times, Books Ireland, WBUR/NPR and other publications. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and cited in Best American Essays. She designs and leads creative and wellness writing workshops.