The Carnival at Bray, Jessie Ann Foley
The Carnival at Bray, Jessie Ann Foley
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The Carnival at Bray

Author: Jessie Ann Foley

Narrator: Erin Moon

Unabridged: 8 hr 51 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 07/31/2015

Synopsis

It's 1993, and Generation X pulses to the beat of Kurt Cobain and the grunge movement. Sixteen-year-old Maggie Lynch is uprooted from big-city Chicago to a windswept town on the Irish Sea. Surviving on care packages of Spin magazine and Twizzlers from her rocker uncle Kevin, she wonders if she'll ever find her place in this new world. When first love and sudden death simultaneously strike, a naive but determined Maggie embarks on a forbidden pilgrimage that will take her to a seedy part of Dublin and on to a life- altering night in Rome to fulfill a dying wish. Through it all, Maggie discovers an untapped inner strength to do the most difficult but rewarding thing of all, live. The Carnival at Bray is an evocative ode to the Smells Like Teen Spirit Generation and a heartfelt exploration of tragedy, first love, and the transformative power of music. The book won the 2014 Helen Sheehan YA Book Prize.

About Jessie Ann Foley

Jessie Ann Foley is the Printz Honor–winning author of the YA novels The Carnival at Bray (also a Morris Award finalist), Neighborhood Girls, Sorry for Your Loss, and You Know I’m No Good. For middle graders, she has written Breda's Island and Severe and Unusual Weather. Her work has been named to best-of lists by Kirkus Reviews, ALA Booklist, YALSA, Entertainment Weekly, and many other outlets and has been featured on school and library recommended reading lists all across the United States. Jessie lives with her family in Chicago, where she was born and raised. You can visit her online at jessieannfoley.com.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Dave on January 24, 2024

1/23/24: Reread for a YAL class, and a majority of the class really admired it, though they also quizzed me about the music that I grew up with, the concerts I attended, and so on. But that seems appropriate, in that music plays a central role in the book. Rock, grunge music. Funny that I had also b......more

Goodreads review by Ricki on January 18, 2015

2015 Morris Finalist When I read the back of this book, I thought, "Hmm." It felt like a (recent) historical fiction with its emphasis on '90s grunge music and the highlights of Kurt Cobain's life. Because my teen years spanned through part of the '90s, I was intrigued. My favorite aspect of this boo......more

Goodreads review by Kovaxka on October 11, 2019

Egészen jó ifjúsági regény. Bár grunge nem áll hozzám annyira közel, az alternatív rock igen, Írország meg pláne. Abszolút rajongó típus vagyok, így aztán vénségemre is jól tudtam azonosulni a főszereplőkkel. Van feelingje, van mondanivalója, szerethető szereplői. Maggie és Eoin karaktere lehetett v......more

Goodreads review by Svenja on July 30, 2016

Danke an NetGalley und ONE für das Rezensionsexemplar. Inhalt »Es ist das Jahr 1993. Bill Clinton wird Präsident der USA und Nirvana veröffentlichen ihr drittes Album »In Utero«. In diesem Jahr zieht Maggie mit ihrer Familie von Chicago nach Bray, einen verschlafenen Ort an der irischen Küste. Sie mus......more

Goodreads review by Jessica on March 21, 2015

There's almost a subgenre in YA of books were girls take off with just a few things in a backpack and go to see the world. They usually end up in a youth hostel, making new friends, possibly getting robbed, but ultimately having a life-changing experience. Think 13 LITTLE BLUE ENVELOPES or WISH YOU......more

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