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Richard T. Rook

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in Providence, Rhode Island, The United States
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What if you discovered that your family wasn't your real family, and you never left the place you thought you were from? Life gets complicated, but rewarding, when we finally decide to question those preconceived notions and accept the consequences. Sometimes the answers are delivered by ancestral spirits, if we're smart enough to listen to them. It can take a lifetime.
I started writing in 2016 after forty years as an attorney and twenty years as a part-time consulting genealogist (still doing both). My published short stories won many awards and gave me the courage to write "Tiernan's Wake," which will be a series (sequel nearing completion).
What other novel will you ever read that combines real pirates, genealogy, the immigrant experie
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It's exciting that Tiernan's Wake is being selected by book groups for reading and discussion. l'm getting requests for "discussion questions" and I'm happy to provide them. Just send an email to richardtrook@gmail.com. Don't leave out the "t" in the middle or it goes to another Richard Rook, in Amsterdam. A very nice guy, but I don't like to impose on him to forward my mail! And a big thank you t Read more of this blog post »
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Published on May 02, 2019 12:55
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Tiernan's Wake

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“Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.”
William Butler Yeats

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