Uncle Raymond's Garden is a memoir of the author's childhood summers in Newport R.I. in the 1940's. Her mother, one of eight siblings, was the only one to leave Newport. She became a nurse, married the author's father, a born and bred New Yorker. Every summer of her youth the author and her brother stayed at her Nana's home, surrounded by seven aunts and uncles and many cousins. The story recaptures this large Irish Catholic family, their diffuse...
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