Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Publication Date: May 11, 2015
From barnesandnoble.com: A major new novel from the winner of the Man Booker Prize. From
internationally acclaimed author Anne Enright comes a shattering novel
set in a small town on Ireland's Atlantic coast. The Green Road is a
tale of family and fracture, compassion, and selfishness—a book about the
gaps in the human heart and how we strive to fill them. Spanning thirty
years, The Green Road tells the story of Rosaleen, matriarch of the
Madigans, a family on the cusp of either coming together or falling
irreparably apart. As they grow up, Rosaleen's four children leave the
west of Ireland for lives they could have never imagined in Dublin, New
York, and Mali, West Africa. In her early old age their difficult,
wonderful mother announces that she’s decided to sell the house and
divide the proceeds. Her adult children come back for a last Christmas,
with the feeling that their childhoods are being erased, their personal
history bought and sold.
A profoundly moving work about a family's
desperate attempt to recover the relationships they've lost and forge
the ones they never had, The Green Road is Enright's most mature,
accomplished, and unforgettable novel to date.
Which book are you waiting for?
...Will you add this one to your list of must-reads?
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