<p>WAY OUT WEST is a beautifully written coming-of-age novel ostensibly about the Irish emigrant experience and, more subtly, the idea of the emigrantxe2x80x99s America as a constructed one.<br>It follows Fintan from Donegal, where his 1950s childhood was filled with tales of America told by a plethora of xe2x80x98returned Yanksxe2x80x99, onwards to the States via Europe as he seeks to understand his deceased motherxe2x80x99s past. Throughout, Fi...