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January 1932: Ben MacCarthy and his dad watch a vagabond variety revue making an end in the Irish countryside. Following a two-hour kaleidoscope of low humor, juggling, tumbling, and other entertainments, Ben’s dad, mesmerized by Venetia Kelly, the troupe’s magnetic headliner, makes a fateful decision: to forego his family and set off on the road with Miss Kelly and her caravan. Ben’s mom, shattered by the desertion, exhorts, “Find him and bring him again,” thereby mailing the boy on a Homeric voyage into manhood.
Interweaving a bunch of unforgettable masterpieces—“Ruler” Kelly, Venetia’s violent, Mephistophelean grandfather; Sarah Kelly, Venetia’s inexplicable, amoral mom; and even a truth-telling ventriloquist’s dummy named Blarney—Frank Delaney unfurls an outstanding narrative that spans half the earth and a tumultuous 10 years.
