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The instant New York Times bestseller Entertainment Weekly describes as ''a gripping family saga, maybe the best. . . since The Corrections.'' Born in 1941, Eileen Tumulty is raise d by her Irish immigrant parents in a Queens apartment where the mood depended on how much alcohol has been consumed. From an early age, Eileen wished that she lived somewhere else. She sets her sights on upper class Bronxville, New York, and an American Dream is born. Eileen places her stock and love in Ed Leary, a handsome young scientist, and with him begins a family. But an inescapable darkness enters their lives, and they try desperately to hold together and to preserve an idea they have cherished of the future. Described by The New York Times Book Review as ''A long, gorgeous epic, full of love and caring. . . one of the best novels you’ll read this year.'' Show more