Moore, Ann

Gracelin O'Malley immigrates to America in order to escape the devastating famine in Ireland, and travels to San Francisco to meet the sea captain whose marriage proposal she accepted, but when he is not there to meet her, Gracelin is forced to accept a job with a prominent doctor and finds herself reunited with a lost love from her past.

Gracelin O'Malley sets sail from her beloved Ireland hoping to find a better life in Manhattan, where she desperately waits for news of the infant son she left behind.

When Gracelin O'Malley leaves Ireland for a better life in America, she struggles to survive in the Irish tenement district which propels her to rebel against the injustices she sees around her.