Brian Collins’ work has appeared in the Broadkill Review, Licking River Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, and The New Inquiry. His first book, When in Doubt, Tell the Truth, is published by Columbia University Press. He lives in West Clare, Ireland, and Hanover, New Hampshire.
A father tells his daughter the story of the gloom she feels, the shadow cast across a century and a half by the family’s ordeal during the Great Hunger. It’s her only hope--understanding what she is grieving and learning how love saw the old ones through.