Chapter of the novel, "Map of Ireland" (about Boston)
Stephanie Grant2008, Scribner (Simon & Schuster)
Lamda Lit Review: “The world of South Boston, 1974: a white neighborhood fighting change that came in the shape of school buses carrying African American children from Roxbury. Such is the backdrop for Stephanie Grant’s novel, Map of Ireland. Ann Ahern likes playing with fire, both literally and figuratively. Grant’s true gift is her uncanny ability to climb inside the skin of a character.” The expression, "you have a face like a map of Ireland," sets the themes of place and identity. An edgy coming-of-age story set in a fraught landscape of white racism, black nationalism, class loyalties, and erotic desire. In Ann, "it is as if Charles Dickens had written a tomboy" (Honor Moore) -- a flawed, intense protagonist. voids sentimentality and the pitfalls of white learning at black people's expense. For readers interested in intersections of race, queer desire, US history, female (butch) protagonists, urban studies. Book group/teaching questions available at https://www.stephaniegrantwriter.com/readers-guide-map.
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