Don’t Tell the Girls: A Family Memoir

Patricia Reilly Giff and her maternal grandmother, Nana, were always close. Nana was a kindred spirit and, through her engaging family stories, a link to the past. In contrast Ms. Giff knew little about her paternal grandmother, Jennie, who died before the author was born. Would she have held her close? Ms. Giff assembled the clues she had about Jennie-her pink shawl, her approximate birth date, her partents’ names-and traveled to Ireland to find out more.