One eventful middle-class childhood behind the Iron Curtain in Soviet Leningrad. A mix of a fun memoir and social history of the years preceding the collapse of the USSR. (The book is finished.)
Sometimes you see an injustice and decide to help. Along the way you discover that the ones you think you’re helping, the hopeless and lost ones, are giving you your life. This is about women, some with AIDS, transforming one another.
In 2006 I first saw the younger William Butler Yeats. His close resemblance to my father was startling. I began to research my paternal grandmother, who was shot when he was four. She was reputed to be the most famous Dublin Prostitute
