Enright, Anne. The Gathering. 0-8021-7039-0 (2007).
Winner of the 2007 Man Booker Prize and, like previous winners, it is a powerful novel. Emotional and reflective, this story of the disintegrating (more probably already completely disintegrated) Hegerty family is troubling. The narrator struggles with the pain of a dark secret and her own inability to distinguish where the lines of reality are drawn. Deftly walking through four generations and yet centering around the wake and funeral of a lost brother, the novel is an exploration of religion, death, depression, and the blights on each of our souls. Wonderfully set in a bleak Irish landscape.
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