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SUMMARY:LIVE Community Chat with Author Brian O'Sullivan
DESCRIPTION:Members, here's your chance to chat with author, Brian O'S
 ullivan, a County Kerry native now living in New York City.  Join us 
 Monday, August 12th at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time in the main chat room h
 ere on TheWildGeese.com.  \n** Brian will be giving away five copies 
 of his book, \"Butcher a Hog,\" to randomly drawn members who particip
 ate in the discussion. **\nAbout the Book This meaningful and memorabl
 e story of survival follows a misguided young man from rural Ireland w
 ho is forced to immigrate and finds a way to survive on the streets of
  New York in the 1980s.  Overview Butcher a Hog is a moving fictionali
 zed memoir that recounts one man's struggle with addiction, homelessne
 ss, and overwhelming adversity as his life unfolds in a sustained seri
 es of misadventures and noble failures that encapsulates his attempt t
 o survive against all odds. Detailing two decades in the life of worki
 ng-class, undocumented Irish emigrant, Butcher a Hog follows Liam McCa
 rthy from his arrival in New York City in 1985 through a litany of sha
 dowy living situations in Irish-American neighborhoods -from Boston to
  the Bronx-and traces his efforts to forge a livelihood amidst the rea
 lities of marginal employment, manual labor, and chronic substance abu
 se. With honesty and trenchant Irish humor, the novel shares both warm
 -hearted moments and bleak, dark times, culminating twenty years later
  with forty-one-year-old Liam facing an uncertain future of voluntary 
 institutionalization in order to receive a prescribed round of ECT, or
  electroconvulsive therapy.\nWritten in a direct, confessional tone, B
 utcher a Hog moves across decades and generations to revisit episodes 
 in Liam's youth in his hometown in Kerry, introducing a poignant story
  of secret abuse and childhood pain shaded with family and social dysf
 unction. Even the tale of Liam's first communion becomes a backdrop fo
 r diminished expectations and self-enforced alienation that will under
 score his failings in adult life, as he inevitably moves from one fias
 co to another, each time somehow managing to transcend the latest in a
  string of personal disasters. Throughout it is a testament to one man
 's life and the relationships he formed in the course of trying to mov
 e past or run away from a haunting specter of depression and self-dest
 ruction. Butcher a Hog tells a meaningful and memorable story of a mis
 guided young man who is forced to immigrate and find a way to survive 
 on the streets of New York in the 1980s that along the way reveals a c
 omical, unrelentingly honest path of personal discovery.\nYou can read
  a recent write-up on Brian and his new book from Irish Central here.\
 n\nFor more information visit https://thewildgeese.irish/events/live-c
 ommunity-chat-with-author-brian-o-sullivan
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CATEGORIES:live, chat
LOCATION:TheWildGeese.com Main Chatroom
WEBSITE:http://thenewwildgeese.com/chat/index/popOutWindowV4
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CONTACT:
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 ldGeese
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  Carabine":https://thewildgeese.irish/profile/BrianPCarabine
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 elkaus":https://thewildgeese.irish/profile/vivianPelkaus
ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Kelly O'
 Rourke":https://thewildgeese.irish/profile/KellyORourke
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 https://thewildgeese.irish/profile/kimberly
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 Silverberg":https://thewildgeese.irish/profile/TiffanySilverberg
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 gan":https://thewildgeese.irish/profile/ger_regan
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  Geese":https://thewildgeese.irish/profile/TheWildGeese
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