![]() ![]() ![]() Her father soothes her and assures her it isn’t her fault words cannot make bad things happen. When she arrives and Da takes her to her aunt’s home, her fear and guilt come tumbling out at the sight of Aunt Meg’s potatoes, made like Mam’s. But Da sends money for Katie to come to America, and she and her cousin Brian take that cramped and tumultuous voyage. Katie believes it is her fault, and guilt gnaws at her like the hunger, especially when Grannie takes sick and they have to sell Pig. ![]() Katie wishes the potatoes away, and is horrified when they begin to turn black and mushy. Most of what she eats at Grand Da’s is potatoes, not with milk and onion and butter, as Mam used to make, but plain boiled. Young Katie misses her Da, who left Ireland to go to Boston more than two Christmases ago. The Irish potato famine of the 1840s, as seen through a little girl’s eyes. ![]()
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