A crowd of siblings gathers in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother in this "stunning" novel by the award-winning author of Actress (The Washington Post).
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 prize-winning author 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 "wonderfully elegant and unsparing" epic of an Irish family (Los Angeles Times) -- a novel about love and disappointment, how memories warp and secrets fester, and how fate is written in the body, not in the stars.
"Entrancing... a haunting look at a broken family stifled by generations of hurt and disappointment, struggling to make peace with the irreparable." -- Entertainment Weekly
"A melancholic love and rage bubbles just beneath the surface of this Dublin clan, and Enright explores it unflinchingly." -- Publishers Weekly
"Her sympathy for her characters is as tender and subtle as Alice McDermott's; her vision of Ireland is as brave and original as Edna O'Brien's. The Gathering is her best book." -- Colm Toibin
"Hypnotic." -- Booklist (starred review)

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• Publication Date: February 26, 2020
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• Print Length: 274 Pages
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