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A wry, humorous, authentic, 'innocent abroad' look at a young woman's emotional and sexual transformation; in the vein of Colm Tobin's Brooklyn, with a 1980s soundtrack. A Bronx Summer explores a life that was left behind, and the promise of a new one, capturing the Irish in New York during the last significant influx of immigration from Ireland to America. I thoroughly enjoyed reading A Bronx Summer and felt comfortable whether I was sitting in the steamy warmth of the kitchen in Dublin or enjoying the frantic life of New York. The writer captures both sides of life with honesty and laughter. -…mehr

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A wry, humorous, authentic, 'innocent abroad' look at a young woman's emotional and sexual transformation; in the vein of Colm Tobin's Brooklyn, with a 1980s soundtrack. A Bronx Summer explores a life that was left behind, and the promise of a new one, capturing the Irish in New York during the last significant influx of immigration from Ireland to America. I thoroughly enjoyed reading A Bronx Summer and felt comfortable whether I was sitting in the steamy warmth of the kitchen in Dublin or enjoying the frantic life of New York. The writer captures both sides of life with honesty and laughter. -
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Autorenporträt
Frances Browner grew up in Dublin, lived in New York for twenty years and now resides in Greystones, Co. Wicklow. Her poems have appeared in Skylight 47, Tales from the Forest, Poems on the Edge, The Ogham Stone, Irish Examiner, Ink Sweat & Tears, A New Ulster, Cold Coffee Stand, Bray Arts Journal, Poetry24, Boyne Berries and on Limerick's Poetry Trail, Poetry Walls and 'Bring your Limerick to Limerick' finals. Her Micro-Chapbook of fifteen poems, Selfies, was launched online by Ghost City Press, Syracuse, New York, in their summer series, July 2019. She has had short stories and memoir pieces published and broadcast on radio and currently tutors creative writing and history with Dun Laoghaire/Dublin ETB. Frances facilitates the weekly workshop, Scríobh Arís, for Greystones Cancer Support and the monthly Poets Parlour open-mic in Greystones.