Map of Ireland
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Publication Year
2008
ISBN
9781416556237
Pages
197 pages
Genre
historical
Format
novel
Item Type
Fiction
Annotation
In 1974, when Ann Ahern begins her junior year of high school, South Boston is in crisis -- Catholic mothers are blockading buses to keep Black children from the public schools, and teenagers are raising havoc in the streets. Ann, an outsider in her own Irish-American community, is infatuated with her beautiful French teacher, Mademoiselle Eugénie, who hails from Paris but is of African descent. Spurred by her adoration for Eugénie, Ann embarks on a journey that leads her beyond South Boston, through the fringes of the Black Power movement, toward love, and ultimately to the truth about herself.
Grade Level
9-12; Adult
Diversity Topics
Family Relationships; Racial Diversity; LGBTQ (Gender and Sexuality); Single parent; Interracial; Race discrimination; Gay/Lesbian; single mother; interracial relationship; marginalized group of people; racism; prejudice; segregation; lesbian; lesbian teenager; same-sex relationship
Main Character
female teenager
Race/Ethnicities
Black (African) / White (Irish)
Family Formation
single mother
LGBTQ+
lesbian female
Awards
Rainbow List, 2009 Young Adult Fiction
Keywords
civil rights; 1974; struggles; isolation; Boston; acceptance; coming-of-age; Black Power; Catholics; high school
Diversity Impact
direct
STARS Citation
Grant, Stephanie, "Map of Ireland" (2008). Diverse Families. 1777.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/diversefamilies/1777