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There are three idols pinned up on the wall above Ger's spot in the top bunk in their house on a council estate in Northern Ireland: Jesus, Elvis, and Neil Armstrong. When all three fail to answer her prayers to become a boy, Ger takes it upon herself to perform her own mini miracle with a strategically placed sausage. This is only one of her attempts to change her identity, aided somewhat unwillingly by Seany. And even though larger, tougher forces—both in their family and in their country—impinge on Ger and Seany's plots, these bond between the two means they never quite lose their engaging sense of humor and grit.
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Elvis, Jesus and Me, Tim Pears, Emer McCourt
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- 2005
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- Title
- Elvis, Jesus and Me
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Tim Pears, Emer McCourt
- Publisher
- Virago Press (UK)
- Released
- 2005
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 224
- ISBN10
- 1844081222
- ISBN13
- 9781844081226
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- 3.15 out of 5
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- There are three idols pinned up on the wall above Ger's spot in the top bunk in their house on a council estate in Northern Ireland: Jesus, Elvis, and Neil Armstrong. When all three fail to answer her prayers to become a boy, Ger takes it upon herself to perform her own mini miracle with a strategically placed sausage. This is only one of her attempts to change her identity, aided somewhat unwillingly by Seany. And even though larger, tougher forces—both in their family and in their country—impinge on Ger and Seany's plots, these bond between the two means they never quite lose their engaging sense of humor and grit.