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From Ireland to Newfoundland,
from New Bedford to New York, Wake imagines a world where we
are a composite of each other's memories and all the memories that predate
us, our parents' memories and their parents' memories. Through stories and
the act of remembering, WAKE follows three generations of an Irish American
family as the children excavate their parents’ stories and come to a
truer understanding of the family's history. Down on her luck and
uninspired by her own future prospects, Deirdre Sullivan moves into her
family home which has been deserted since her father (esteemed writer, Dan
Sullivan) died nearly two years ago. Hundreds of miles away, Deirdre’s
grief-stricken brother, Kevin, has taken to traveling the world over trying
to recreate the adventures he imagines his father had as a young man. Kevin
lands in the peculiar city of St. John’s, Newfoundland where he vaguely
recollects his family has some history.
When he meets a beguiling young librarian, Molly Cartwright, he begins
to unlock the truth about his family’s connection to the island. Meanwhile, thirty-five years
earlier . . . their father, Dan, is going through a very similar struggle as he
tries to understand his own mother and her life before he was born.
Shattering his sense of identity, she shares with him secrets from her past
so volatile they drive him to write an alternative family history. When a
prominent magazine offers to publish Dan’s story, he must decide what he
values more: his mother’s respect, or the respect of the world at large. |
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