What the Critics Are Saying
“The story is moving and compelling... we are reminded who we are as a country and where we have been.”
Jack L. Kennedy – Joplin Independent
“Although the book rests securely on years of research tracing the uncle from 1840’s Ireland to England to America, Quinn chose to write a novel instead of nonfiction, thereby enriching the tale by weaving in the times’ grievous economic conditions. This book has it all – adventure, mystery, politics, war, business, travel, failed romance and history – but no historical treatises here; the action reveals all. Additionally, its pulse is that of a bracing Western, replete with Indian wars, wagon trains, gun battles, cattle drives, dancehall girls, mining camps and homesteaders… The perfect escape from a techno-weary world!”
Mary McWay Seaman - The Celtic Connection
“Master storyteller, David Quinn, erases time. As I read It May Be Forever, I starved in the potato famine in Ireland—I breathed cotton lint in the mills of Lawrence—I sucked prairie dust on the bullwhacker trail—I looked deep into the heart of a sweat lodge fire. To transport the reader is the writer’s job. Quinn does just that.”
Mary Sojourner - Novelist of the Southwest
and occasional contributor on National Public Radio
“Oh, what a colorful and informative journey David M. Quinn's It May Be Forever takes us on. It is a journey that the Prescott author says was originally inspired by his study of his own family roots. What a tribute he gives to his ancestors. And what a moving adventure he gives his readers.”
Susan Lang - Director of the Hassayampa Institute for Creative Writing
“Although a true-life story, Michael’s great-great-nephew, David Quinn, chooses to tell (It May Be Forever) in novel form. It works brilliantly, for David shows his dexterity as a storyteller is equally worthy of his subject. It’s a book that should be listed among the great Irish diasporic accounts, told with skill and artistry by an author of whom I am sure we will hear more.”
Peter Berresford Ellis - Noted Celtic scholar, writer, and novelist
“What's unique about this biography turned novel is the real life information threaded throughout like golden wire. It's obvious that Quinn has done his research to breathe life and breath into Michael Quinn's tale…. I recommend David Quinn's book as an excellent and pleasurable way to learn your Irish and Irish American history. It's a gripping journey, colored with much tragedy and sadness, but excitement and joy as well. I thank David Quinn for sharing it with us.”
Janet McGrane - CelticReader.Com
“It May Be Forever is an obvious labour of love… the author invested considerable time in research and the scenes depicted have a truly authentic ring… David M. Quinn has succeeded in constructing a tale that links the sufferings of the Irish Famine to those of the Native Americans at Wounded Knee. It is also a tale with a tentatively happy ending, an end to a life of bitterness but a life of extraordinary adventure peopled with extraordinary characters.”
Pauline Ferrie - EmigrantOnline.ie
“A beautifully written historical novel filled with excellent research and characters! Highly recommended!”
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