Book review of Barbara Dowd Wright’s An Irish Tale…

An Irish Tale. Barbara Dowd Wright, author; illustrations, Sokyo (2016). Sometimes you find more at the beach than you bargain for. One of my favorite places on the New Jersey shore is Spring Lake (it gets a cameo in my new novel Death on the Danube). The breakers there are impressive, and I can sit and watch them for hours, as they seem to tell me, “We will be here long after all you humans are gone.” You might think those thoughts are pessimistic, maudlin, or morbid; they’re not. It’s just a f...