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The Gathering
A Literary Fiction Novel by Anne Enright
Subgenres:
- Family Saga,
- Irish Fiction,
- Multi-Generational
This book is for you if you're into...
- Irish family sagas with secrets that echo across generations
- Siblings reuniting for a wake with old wounds resurfacing
- Stories where memory and grief blur into something haunting
A crowd of siblings gathers in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother. The surviving children of the Hegarty clan are gathering for the wake of their wayward, alcoholic brother, Liam, drowned in the sea after filling his pockets with stones. He is the third of the twelve Hegarty siblings to die.
His sister, Veronica, collects the body and keeps the dead man company, guarding the secret she shares with him—something that happened in their grandmother's house in the winter of 1968.
As Anne Enright traces the line of betrayal and redemption through three generations, her distinctive intelligence twists the world a fraction and gives it back to us in a new and unforgettable light. The Gathering is an epic of an Irish family—a novel about love and disappointment, how memories warp and secrets fester, and how fate is written in the body, not in the stars.
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