Mapping Norwood: An Irish-American Memoir (Paperback)
As the title indicates,this memoir is an act of map making,of plotting out overlapping territoriesùtopographical,temporal,and psychological. Centered on family life in a Massachusetts town from the s to the s,the author's investigation extends outward to include the Boston area from colonial times to the recent past,encounters with Boston's Museum of Fine Arts and with Harvard College,the American Civil War,and Ireland and Germany in the nineteenth century. Charles Fanning re-creates