The Books
Three Books.
One
Framework.
A triptych — memoir, textbook, and fiction — that together tell the full story of Joy Repair: where it came from, what it means in practice, and what it feels like to live it across generations.
Joy Repair
250 Years of American Shame and the Formula for Repair
Marc McAleavey, MSW
A sweeping personal and institutional examination of how American systems accumulate harm across generations — and a rigorous, lived framework for what repair actually requires. Beginning with Michael McAleavey's crossing from County Mayo in 1845 and ending on 29th Street in Indianapolis where people danced, this is the origin story of the Joy Repair methodology told from the inside.
- Part memoir, part framework documentation
- Traces the McAleavey-Norvell lineage across 250 years
- The foundational text for Joy Repair practitioners
- Includes the Meta-Macro Social Work™ origin story
Meta-Macro Social Work
A New Practice for New Times
Marc McAleavey, MSW
The formal academic articulation of the Meta-Macro Social Work™ framework — designed for graduate social work programs, community practitioners, and institutional leaders. This textbook translates twenty years of field practice, research, and lived experience into a rigorous, teachable methodology for anticipatory, ancestry-focused, systemic practice.
- Graduate-level social work curriculum
- Ancestry-Focused Futures™ practice framework
- Institutional repair theory and application
- Case studies from two decades of field practice
Queen Bridget's Cave
and the 6/7 Curse
Marc McAleavey
Tionscadal Mhic Dhuinnshléibhe
Éiríonn míle grá ina shíóraíocht de shaolta ámhacha
Inspired by Bridget Murphy McAleavey, the young woman who crossed an ocean with Michael McAleavey in 1845 — and whose story has never been fully told. A young adult novella about ancestry, courage, inheritance, and the curses we carry without knowing it. Published in both English and Irish (Gaeilge), honoring the language of the McAleavey homeland.
- Young adult novella
- Inspired by Bridget Murphy McAleavey (1845)
- Published in English and Irish / Gaeilge
- Connects the ancestral line to living descendants
The work doesn't stop at the journal.
These three books represent the full arc — the ancestor who started it, the practitioner who named it, and the child who will carry it forward.
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