"When Annie Brown, a fun-loving woman, suddenly dies, her husband, best friend, and her children all struggle to find ways to go on after the loss of the woman who was the center of their lives, and who made life happy, fun, and secure. Her husband is overwhelmed with four children to raise, and turns to his teenage daughter for help, and to an old girlfriend for solace. Annie's best friend struggles again with opioid addiction, having depended on...

An anthology of fiction written in this century by Irish-American women. The subjects include religion, family, ethnicity and lesbianism. The writers are known and unknown, and the settings are on both sides of the Atlantic.