Rot: An Imperial History of the Irish Famine Fiction_Gift_Guide ” —Andrew Joseph White

” —Andrew Joseph White

so what’s the harm in a little fib

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Resounds with authenticity

God only knows what it all means

Rot: An Imperial History of the Irish Famine Fiction_Gift_Guide ” —Andrew Joseph WhiteA revelatory new history of the Irish Great Famine, showing how the British Empire caused Irelands most infamous disaster. Vigorous and engaging. Fintan OToole, The New Yorker In 1845, European potato fields were attacked by a novel pathogen. But it was only in Ireland that the blights devastation reached apocalyptic levels, leaving more than a million dead and forcing millions more to emigrate. In Rot, historian Padraic X. Scanlan offers a new