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Higgins, Maeve.
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Higgins, Maeve.
Women comedians -- Ireland -- Biography.
Women comedians -- United States -- Biography.
Irish -- United States -- Biography.
Conduct of life -- Humor.
English essays -- 21st century.
English essays -- Irish authors.
English essays -- Women authors.
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Higgins, Maeve.
Higgins, Maeve.
Women comedians -- Ireland -- Biography.
Women comedians -- United States -- Biography.
Irish -- United States -- Biography.
Conduct of life -- Humor.
English essays -- 21st century.
English essays -- Irish authors.
English essays -- Women authors.
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Tell everyone on this train I love them : essays / Maeve Higgins.
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Higgins, Maeve.
Penguin Books, 2022.
Call #:
824
.92
H636t
Subjects
Higgins, Maeve.
Women comedians -- Ireland -- Biography.
Women comedians -- United States -- Biography.
Irish -- United States -- Biography.
Conduct of life -- Humor.
English essays -- 21st century.
English essays -- Irish authors.
English essays -- Women authors.
ISBN:
9780143135869 (trade pbk)
Description:
209 p. ; 20 cm.
Summary:
"Deeply funny, moving, and urgent writing about a country that can feel broken into pieces and the light that shines through the cracks, from Irish comedian Maeve Higgins, author of Maeve in America. As an eternally curious outsider, Maeve Higgins can see that the United States is still an experiment. Some parts work well and others really don't, but that doesn't stop her from loving the place and the people that make it. With piercing political commentary in a sweet and salty tone, these essays unearth answers to the questions we all have about this country we call home; the beauty of it all and the dark parts too. Maeve struggles to better understand our borders, and finds herself at The Alamo surrounded by queso and homemade rifles. A chance encounter with a statue of a teenage horseback rider causes her to interrogate the purpose of monuments, this sends her hurtling through the past, connecting Ireland's revolutionary history with the struggles of Black Americans today. And after mistaking edibles for innocent candies, Maeve gets way too high at Paper Source. Most of all, she attempts to leave this country and this planet better than she found it. That may well be impossible, but in the meantime she can try, and that is where love comes in. Love is an action: love is paying attention, love is a reckoning and a reconcilation with how the world really is."--Publisher.
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