Silver River

When Daisy Goodwin was five years old her mother left their family home to pursue a Bohemian life with another man. A distant and unreliable figure in her childhood, Daisy adored her glamorized mother from afar. It was not until devastating depression following the birth of her own daughter that Daisy felt compelled to write about her mother's abandonment and to try to understand what could cause a woman to leave her children. But Daisy's quest for an explanation takes her further than she could ever have expected - back 150 years into her family history, following her Irish forebears' emigration to Argentina. Gamblers and speculators, rash and unstable, her South American family begins to provide a pattern through which she can make sense of her mother's decision.