Maine Irish Reads “The Pull of the Stars” by Emma Donoghue
Schedule
Thu, 11 Sep, 2025 at 07:30 pm
UTC-04:00Location
34 Gray St, Portland, ME, United States, Maine 04102 | Portland, ME
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Maine Irish Reads, our monthly book club, meets every second Thursday here at the Center!From 7:30 – 9 PM in the MIHC Library. Bring a friend. The more, the merrier.
About this month’s book:
In Dublin, 1918, a maternity ward at the height of the Great Flu is a small world of work, risk, death, and unlooked-for love, in “Donoghue’s best novel since Room” (Kirkus Reviews)
In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city center, where expectant mothers who have come down with the terrible new Flu are quarantined together. Into Julia’s regimented world step two outsiders — Doctor Kathleen Lynn, a rumoured Rebel on the run from the police , and a young volunteer helper, Bridie Sweeney.
In the darkness and intensity of this tiny ward, over three days, these women change each other’s lives in unexpected ways. They lose patients to this baffling pandemic, but they also shepherd new life into a fearful world. With tireless tenderness and humanity, carers and mothers alike somehow do their impossible work.
In The Pull of the Stars, Emma Donoghue once again finds the light in the darkness in this new classic of hope and survival against all odds.
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Where is it happening?
34 Gray St, Portland, ME, United States, Maine 04102Event Location & Nearby Stays:
