Triple Decker

 

The Flanagan family are a typical Boston Irish Catholic family with Patrick and Bridget as patriarch and matriarch. They live on the top floor of the triple decker they bought years before.

Daughter Peggy, a widow, lives on the middle floor. She has two sons, one that gives her many problems. Peggy is extremely timid not wanting to venture far until she loses her much-loved job in a bank combined with a personal tragedy. She becomes politically active stepping out of her tiny comfort zone much to her own surprise.

Daughter Katie lives with her husband Bill and law student daughter Jess on the ground floor. Katie is not happy with the idea that Bill would like to live in the suburbs. When she is not undermining the idea of a move, she worries about Jess's virginity (too late) and relationship with Aidan, a Boston Globe journalist who actively supports Jess's fight against the Iraq war.

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