SHIBBY MAGEE: An Irish Tragicomedy

When their bold, brassy mother vanishes into Ireland's Traveller community, Shibby Magee and her twin sister Dorah are left behind in a family already cracking at the seams. Under the iron rule of their rigidly bigoted grandmother, the girls grow up on opposite tracks: Dorah, defiant and arrogant; Shibby, bruised and unmoored. As an adult, desperate for love, Shibby is drawn to men who damage her, trapped in patterns she can't yet see. She finds a measure of stability in the chaos of a rest...