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Greener Grass: The Famine Years

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Publication date
  
2009

ISBN
  
978-0-88995-402-1

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Pages
  
278 pp (first edition)

Originally published
  
2009

Genre
  
Young adult fiction

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Media type
  
Print (Trade Paperback)

Awards
  
Governor General's Award for English-language children's literature

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Greener Grass, published in 2009, is the second novel of Canadian author Caroline Pignat. The story revolves around a 14-year-old girl, Kit Byrne, living during the Great Famine of 1847 in Ireland. The Byrne family faces imminent eviction when their landlord, Lord Fraser, wants to repossess their land. He attempts to drive them out by raising the rent and having his estate manager, Lynch, set fires in the surrounding area. Kit works as a kitchen maid in the main house, but when she loses her job her mother is forced to sell precious family heirlooms and furniture. With her father dead, she must fight for survival and help her ailing mother and siblings escape Ireland for good.

This story is a glimpse into the tragic events of the Great Hunger, the famine that devastated Ireland, forcing thousands of impoverished families to seek better livelihoods outside of their homeland.

References

Greener Grass: The Famine Years Wikipedia


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