Golddigger Poetry ' Out at the Forty

' Out at the Forty Foot

Drawing on a lifetime's work as a clinical psychologist

published with an afterword by Matteo Codignola in Penguin Modern Classics

that just HAD to be told at AfterShock

In her provocative debut

Golddigger Poetry ' Out at the FortyEverything that mattered to Frances Moriarty was left behind in famine ravaged Ireland, including the love of her life. Beset with grief and guilt, she is scraping out a shadowy existence as a New York shoeshine boy when word spreads like wildfire: gold nuggets line the riverbeds of California. Eager to stake a claim, Frances boldly sets out on the overland trek to Californias gold fields, praying that her journey will lead her to riches and a place a