Maeve Higgins was a bestselling memoirist & comedian in her native Ireland when, at the grand old age of 31, she left the only home she`d ever known in search of something more. Like many women in their early thirties, she both was & was not the adult she wanted to be. At once smart, curious & humane, Maeve in America is the story of how Maeve found herself, literally & figuratively, in New York City.