The Irish Goodbye: Micro-Memoirs

The Irish Goodbye: Micro-MemoirsA new, genredefying volume that explores family, marriage, motherhood, place, and coming of age with singular wit and emotional clarity. What can we learn from an ordinary life observed with extraordinary skill? In The Irish Goodbye, Beth Ann Fennelly writes of the small moments that shape a life, whether moving or perplexing or troubling or gladdening, in the process dignifying the diminutive through the act of attention. Fennelly explores her roles

Meanwhile at Scotland Yard

so beautifully written

roast pork with crackling

In the tradition of Gregory Maguire's Wicked and Erin Morgenstern's The Night Circus

government officials

Greta and Minette learn about what it means to take care for the rare and delicate dragons

Words kill

Still Life introduces not only an engaging series hero in Inspector Gamache

And she can even make herself glad for that young girl from Kansas

mist-cloaked tale of a young prophetess who is forced beyond the safety of her cloister on an impossible quest to defeat the gods with the one knight whose future is beyond her sight

the man who shares her bed

for Christmas is coming