'Hamnet' novelist Maggie O'Farrell maps her Irish roots in 'Land'
Maggie O'Farrell’s new novel Land draws from her family history to explore Ireland’s colonial mapping, the trauma of the Great Famine, and the magical realism embedded in Irish folklore, while her memoir reveals how surviving childhood encephalitis and living with a stammer shaped her r
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