![]() ![]() It is in this setting that Delaney gets a surprise thrown at him-Grace leaves her young son, Carlito, on Delaney’s footsteps essentially leaving the 2-year-old’s care to his grandfather. His daughter, Grace, too has run away and married a revolutionary Mexican. When the story opens, Delaney is living with ghosts - memories of his Irish wife, Molly, who suddenly walked out one day and is presumed to have committed suicide. So despite holding a prestigious degree from Johns Hopkins, Delaney is forced to eke out a paltry existence in New York City by working as a general practitioner. A World War I vet, he returned from the war without use of one arm and couldn’t take up surgery as he had once hoped. ![]() James Finbar Delaney is an Irish doctor who offers most of his consulting services for free without judgment or bias against his patients. North River is veteran New Yorker Pete Hamill’s latest creation and it is set during the Great Depression. ( Jump over to read a review of Downtown) ![]()
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