Charleen Hurtubise is author of The Polite Act of Drowning. Saoirse is her US debut novel. She has a graduate degree from Trinity College in Dublin and an MFA in creative writing from University College Dublin, where she has facilitated creative writing seminars. Born in Florida to a French-Canadian father and an Irish mother, she spent much of her childhood in Michigan, her early adult years in Boston, and has now lived half of her life in Ireland, which is home. She lives in Dublin but the pull of Donegal and its mesmerizing landscapes influence both her writing and her visual arts practice.
Charleen Hurtubise
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For readers of Colm Tóibín and Claire Keegan, Saoirse is a powerful novel set between the United States and Ireland about a woman who runs from her traumatic past and the secrets she carries to survive.