Steenie O'Shea

About the Book

On February 2, 2002, the Seanachais (Gallic for storyteller) Steenie O´Shea of Galway, Ireland, discloses to her young niece, Aine, the mysterious family secret that occurred in 1977. The narrator describes Steenie´s amnesia and its effect on author, Maeve McCourt, in Fountain Hills, Arizona. What is the source of identical books created by the two storytellers, an ocean apart, the same year? Maeve travels to Galway, meets the O´Shea bookshop clan and enters into the strange evolutionary transformation of the Blues. Travel with the O´Shea´s from the Sligo of W.B. Yeats down the coast of Galway Bay to The Burren as the venture becomes more and more convoluted, entangled with a 350,000 year-old mystery. Maurice Meehan, Steenie´s fiance, a poet of the sea, disappears in 1974, shortly before their wedding day. Did he drown with his Da and brothers in the curagh accident off the Aran Island of Inishmaan where J.M. Synge lived and wrote his plays? What is the "Third Way" and its connection between Belfast and the Giant´s Crossing in Northern Ireland? Mali Berger, storyteller of this fiction thriller, combines mystery, romance and philosophy in her fey Irish happening, enticing, entrapping the reader into this strange O´Shea family secret.

About the Author

The author of seven books, including three novels in the Irish Trilogy, Steenie O’Shea, Aine’s Story and Niamh River, that takes place in Galway, Ireland, Mali Berger has also published short stories, a memoir and a book for children. In addition, she writes bi-monthly articles for the Arizona Authors Association. Mali taught American Literature in Michigan and Chinese Universities as well as The Dalton School in Manhattan and presently balances life between New York City and Galway, Ireland with visits to Dublin. Her love for drama and the theater as well as bundles of books from Kennys Book Shop in Galway are mirrored in her stories.