Helen Thorpe

In Finding Motherland, acclaimed nonfiction author Helen Thorpe shares seven essays she has written on the related themes of family, food, and migration. She takes us to the dairy farm in Ireland where her mother grew up, and depicts how Ireland is modernizing with surprising consequences. She describes her family's decision to immigrate to the United States and how, that reshaped her Irish-born parents. She shows us how the experience of becoming...