Something Bigger

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When fourteen-year-old Marcella Coyle leaves Ireland to join her older brother Jimmy, a priest in Birmingham, Alabama, nobody could imagine where the journey would take her. Plunged into the tense cauldron of the Deep South at the turn of the Twentieth Century, she struggles to understand her outspoken brother, and her place in his world. The life she left behind becomes equally incomprehensible, as war and Irish nationalism change her memories and the lives of the people she loves most. When the KKK revive and take to the streets, a dangerous friendship puts Marcella and those closest to her at risk. The consequences shake the city, and change her life forever.