A deeply resonant story about three generations of an estranged family reuniting to mourn an untimely death. It is the early 1990s, and Helen O Doherty, her mother Lily, and her grandmother Dora, have come together in a crumbling old house along Ireland s coastal southeast to tend Helen s adored brother Declan, who is dying of AIDS. With two of Declan s friends, the six of them are forced to plumb the shoals of their own histories and to come to terms with each other. Written in a spare, powerful prose, this is a moving ...
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A deeply resonant story about three generations of an estranged family reuniting to mourn an untimely death. It is the early 1990s, and Helen O Doherty, her mother Lily, and her grandmother Dora, have come together in a crumbling old house along Ireland s coastal southeast to tend Helen s adored brother Declan, who is dying of AIDS. With two of Declan s friends, the six of them are forced to plumb the shoals of their own histories and to come to terms with each other. Written in a spare, powerful prose, this is a moving novel about the capacity of stories to heal the deepest wounds."
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