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The Green Road
A Literary Fiction Novel by Anne Enright
Subgenres:
- Family Saga,
- Ireland,
- Multi-Generational
This book is for you if you're into...
- Irish family sagas spanning decades and continents
- Adult siblings reuniting for one last bittersweet holiday
- Stories where selling the childhood home stirs up old wounds
From Little Stack
There’s something so bittersweet when relatives gather for one last celebration before a family home is sold. That’s certainly true in this Irish novel, which follows Rosaleen over three decades as her children grow up and leave for faraway places around the globe. With Rosaleen getting older, she decides to sell their home, and the adult children reunite for a final Christmas where they face both their memories and fragile relationships to one another. Penned by a Booker Prize-winning author, this book is ideal if you’re looking for a holiday family story filled with poignancy.
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.
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