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In the National Reserve Award-winning Let the fantastic World Spin, Colum McCann excited viewers with a wonderful high-wire work of fiction that The NY Times Reserve Review called "an emotional head to de force". Now McCann shows once more why he is one of the most acclaimed and essential authors of his technology with a soaring book that spans continents, leaps decades, and unites a solid of deftly rendered character types, both real and imagined. Newfoundland, 1919: Two aviators - Jack port Alcock and Arthur Brown - establish course for Ireland as they look at the first nonstop flight over the Atlantic Ocean, putting their trust in a improved bomber to mend the wounds of the fantastic War. Dublin, 1845 and '46: On an international lecture tour in support of his subversive autobiography, Frederick Douglass confirms the Irish people sympathetic to the abolitionist cause - even though, as famine ravages the countryside, the indegent suffer from hardships that are amazing even for an American slave. NY, 1998: Abandoning a young better half and newborn child, Senator George Mitchell departs for Belfast, where it includes fallen to him, the child of Irish-American dad and a Lebanese mom, to shepherd North Ireland's notoriously bitter and volatile peace foretells an uncertain summary. These three iconic crossings are connected by a series of impressive women whose personal tales are swept up in the swells of history. Beginning with Irish housemaid Lily Duggan, who crosses pathways with Frederick Douglass, the book follows her daughter and granddaughter, Emily and Lottie, and culminates in the present-day story of Hannah Carson, in whom all the expectations and failures of previous generations go on. From the loughs of Ireland to the flatlands of Missouri and the windswept coastline of Newfoundland, their journeys mirror the progress and condition of history. They each learn that even the most unassuming moments of elegance have a way of rippling through time, space, and storage area. The most older work yet from an matchless storyteller, TransAtlantic is a profound meditation on identity and history in a broad world that develops somehow smaller and more wondrous with each passing season.
