Imagine discovering that your family has been harboring secrets for several generations. If you were Lucy Fewer, what would you do with this new information? Fewer, who resides in Ireland, was confronted with a family history that had not seen the light of day for many decades until she was given two large mail bags of belongings and letters from her deceased grand aunt. 
From the contents of these bags, Fewer unpacked the troubled lives of her grandmother and grand aunt, as told through hundreds of letters and postcards that the sisters wrote to each other, one from Ireland, the other from America. Some of the letters had never been sent or read, unsealed for the first time in 70 years.That happened 30 years ago. Now, with time to reflect on the meaning of these century-old letters, while conducting additional research, Fewer was inspired to write an award-winning, debut literary novel with historical relevance, entitled Yankeeland.

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